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How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement

The Verge

But right-wing supporters have a wildly different view of events: figures like Tucker Carlson have portrayed the convoy as a working-class rebellion, and Trudeau’s response has been treated as enacting martial law, leading Elon Musk to tweet (and then delete) a meme comparing Trudeau to Adolf Hitler. And engagement hasn’t really come back.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

These countries include Netherlands, Poland, Ireland, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Slovakia, Latvia, Slovenia, Estonia, Croatia, Luxembourg, Malta and Cyprus. The deal came after months of legal drama , bad memes and will-they-or-won’t-they-chaos.

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