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The Morning After: Google dismisses Elon Musk’s claim that autocomplete interfered in the election


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But Musk’s tweet, viewed more than 118 million times, has forced the search giant to publicly explain one of its most basic features. The Perplexity Publishers’ Program comes less than two months after the startup, valued at $3 billion, came under fire from Forbes, Wired and Condé Nast for allegedly scraping content without permission. The foldables were customized in collaboration with Visual Labs, a company that repurposes mobile devices as body and dash cameras.

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