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• Grok doubts the holocaust https://www.theverge.com/news/668527/xai-grok-system-prompts-ai https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/

• AI-generated reading list https://www.404media.co/chicago-sun-times-prints-ai-generated-summer-reading-list-with-books-that-dont-exist/ https://www.404media.co/viral-ai-generated-summer-guide-printed-by-chicago-sun-times-was-made-by-magazine-giant-hearst/

• OpenAI bunker https://nypost.com/2025/05/19/business/openai-co-founder-wanted-doomsday-bunker-to-protect-against-rapture/

• South Sudan deportation flights https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-deported-asian-migrants-south-sudan-lawyers-say/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-deportations-south-sudan.html

• Covid vaccines https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fda-plans-limit-covid-shots-65-high-risk/story?id=122030887 https://www.kff.org/health-information-and-trust/poll-finding/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-january-2025/

• Public comment https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001