Happy Tuesday, all! Here's your Tuesday Tech Drop, the top news at the intersection of tech and politics from the past week. Trump’s fake Black backers The BBC is out with a new report this week on Trump supporters who’ve been using artificial intelligence to generate images of Trump appearing friendly with nonexistent Black people. Despite Trump’s history of demonstrable racism , he and his supporters have been trying to play up his support among Black people.
The move opens Tesla up to a potentially multimillion dollar lawsuit. Tesla is currently facing lawsuits over similar allegations brought by two state agencies in California and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; in a 2022 response to one of the California suits, Tesla has said that it “strongly” opposes discrimination and has called the accusations of widespread racism part of a “narrative” spun by lawyers. Read more at TIME. Leak problems The U.S.