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Once a target of Musk’s ire, Gen Z creator Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress


When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on

When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on X to celebrate her misfortune. But when Musk sued Media Matters over an article about how X placed advertisements alongside pro-Nazi content, the mounting legal costs led the non-profit to lay off Abughazaleh and twelve others. In the era of Trump — the president literally owns a social media platform where he posts constantly — it’s not so taboo anymore to show personality online.

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