📰 Did USATODAY publish this story about animal testing at Neuralink, a firm owned by Elon Musk? No -- the newspaper's parent company confirmed the screenshot is fake
is owned by Musk, who is also the founder of Tesla and SpaceX and the owner of Twitter. The private firm is seeking
to build a brain-computer interface with a range of potential applications, such as treating neurological disorders and restoring sensory and motor function in people with paralysis. The image shared online is designed to resemble a USA Today article authored by Bailey Schulz. But it is fabricated -- the newspaper never published the headline.
"We can confirm that the screenshot on Twitter is fake" and"never appeared on usatoday.com," a spokesperson for Gannett, USA Today's parent company, told AFP in an email. Sophia Benoit, a columnist for GQ magazine and Bustle who originally shared the supposed screenshot, confirmed in a December 1
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