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Musk's mega-app-in-waiting goes from chopping headlines to profile URLs

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Side-by-side images of the CIA's X profile. On the left is the current, fixed profile displaying the correctly shortened URL. On the right, the image shows how the URL appeared after it was erroneously truncated and directing to a different channel The Telegram URL in the fake profile would also have appeared in the same way as it would on the genuine CIA X profile due to the way X truncates URLs.

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