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Ben Brody says his life was going fine. He had just finished college, stayed out of trouble, and was prepping for law school. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Elon Musk used his considerable social media clout to amplify an online mob’s misguided rants accusing the 22-year-old from California of being an undercover agent in a neo-Nazi group.

View CNN’s Fast Facts on Michael Chertoff, the former Secretary of Homeland Security.

Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano.

On September 25, 2000, Kevin Hines climbed over the rail of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Read CNN’s Fast Facts on the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars.

Hate groups and far-right internet trolls have seized on the tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, while leveraging advances in artificial intelligence to further stoke antisemitism in the United States.

Read CNN’s Tigray War Fast Facts to learn more about the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

The Chinese government has built up the world’s largest known online disinformation operation and is using it to harass US residents, politicians, and businesses—at times threatening its targets with violence, a CNN review of court documents and public disclosures by social media companies has found.

Hate groups and far-right internet trolls have seized on the tensions surrounding the Israel-Hamas war, while leveraging advances in artificial intelligence to further stoke antisemitism in the United States.

Fake electors in Arizona publicly pushed to overturn the 2020 election. Now they’re facing new legal scrutiny in a state investigation.