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Welcome to Tech News briefing. It's Friday, August 23rd.

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

When you get a new car, you expect that new car smell.

But to some buyers of Tesla's cyber truck, it feels like their new pickups haven't been cleaned.

We'll tell you what's going on.

And then, fake accounts controlled by a Russian intelligence agency are trying to piggyback on the popularity of celebrities,

politicians, and other influencers on X, formerly Twitter.

They're doing this by replying to posts according to a Wall Street Journal review of more than a thousand posts.

Our reporter, Alexa Course, is going to join us to explain why these bots are using this low-quality, high-volume spam tactic, and what it could mean for the upcoming US election.

But first, Tesla's cyber trucks are rolling out of dealerships and into the hands of owners.

But some say the vehicles are being handed over with the stainless steel exterior covered in fingerprints and smudges. Others report a hard to remove hazy

coating on the windshield or dirt on the seats. So what's going on? Our reporter Ben Glickman is here to tell us. So Ben what happened? Why were the

cyber trucks dirty? It's hard to say for sure. We've heard a couple of reasons. Some

former employees at Tesla say that the service of were relatively

difficult to clean because of its size and its odd stainless steel exterior.

So multiple factors were combining here to result in some less than pristine trucks being handed over.

How easy or tough is it to clean these trucks?

Well, that's sort of an ongoing question. There's a lot of debate over what to use to clean the truck. Obviously, it's not the same as what you would typically find on a painted car. For one, people don't know the exact right material to use, even at the service centers in the early days of the rollout for the cyber truck.

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