Tag: Musks
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H&R Block and Intuit drop on a report that Elon Musk’s DOGE may develop a new tax-filing app
H&R Block and Intuit shares dropped on Tuesday after the Washington Post reported that President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, which is run by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is looking at developing a free app for people to file their taxes. The publication cited two people, who spoke on the condition of…
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What is Bluesky, the online platform welcoming users leaving Elon Musk’s X?
Bluesky, a fledgling social media platform, reported Thursday that 1 million users had signed up in a single day. Some frustrated X users appear to have flocked to the newer network in recent weeks. What is BlueSky? Bluesky, which began as an internal project by then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in 2019, was invitation-only until it…
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Examining Elon Musk’s influence on Trump’s transition process
Examining Elon Musk’s influence on Trump’s transition process – CBS News Watch CBS News President-elect Donald Trump announced this week that Elon Musk will help lead a new agency known as the Department of Government Efficiency. Theodore Schleifer, campaign finance reporter for The New York Times, joins “America Decides” to unpack his new reporting on…
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Elon Musk’s DOGE is hiring. Here’s the kind of person he’s looking for.
The new Department of Government Efficiency, a group created by President-elect Donald Trump with the task of identifying ways to cut federal spending and headed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is already taking resumes. The request for job applicants was posted Thursday by the new X account for DOGE, which despite its heady…
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Elon Musk’s $1 million voter sweepstakes may continue, Pennsylvania judge rules
A judge in Pennsylvania ruled Monday that Elon Musk’s political action committee’s $1 million a day voter sweepstakes can continue through Tuesday’s presidential election. Common Pleas Court Judge Angelo Foglietta did not immediately offer a reason for the ruling. In court Monday, Musk’s lawyers said the recipients of his giveaway are not chosen by chance but to…
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In Elon Musk’s “election integrity” community on X, false claims proliferate
Elon Musk’s political action committee has created a group on his platform X that has become a repository for election misinformation, galvanizing more than 58,000 members to report instances of “voter fraud or irregularities” that are often unsubstantiated, misleading or flat-out fabricated. The “Election Integrity Community,” which launched in late October, has hundreds of new…