Sarah Ellison

• Democracy in America

The X billionaire’s false posts about noncitizen voting spur officials to fact-check him, lead to requests to purge voter rolls, and add to worries about threats.

• Democracy in America

Five secretaries of state plan to send Elon Musk an open letter Monday urging him to “immediately implement changes to X’s AI search assistant, Grok” to stop the spread of false election information to voters.

• Europe

A former U.K. prime minister called for police to examine allegations that William Lewis and others Scotland Yard considering request to examine alleged phone-hacking coverup. Lewis denies wrongdoing.

• The Media

Rupert Murdoch seeks a conservative future for Fox News and his media empire under son Lachlan. Siblings James, Elisabeth and Prudence are fighting back.

• Elections

Some Democrats say his comments, directed at a Christian audience, signaled his plans to be a dictator. His campaign says he was talking about ‘uniting’ the country, and experts point to his ‘deliberately ambiguous’ speaking style.

• Democracy in America

The denial paves the way for defamation suits against the site by two Georgia election workers and a former Dominion Voting Systems executive to continue.

• Democracy in America

Joe Biden abandoned his campaign. Donald Trump and his allies rushed in with conspiracy theories. How these wild theories are shaping the 2024 race.

• Elections

Conspiracy theories swell around false flags, Deep State, Biden and the Secret Service, filling the information vacuum as consumers choose their own reality.

• Investigations

Former U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown calls for William Lewis to be criminally investigated. Lewis says he “did nothing wrong.”