Once a target of Musk’s ire, Gen Z creator Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress

When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on X to celebrate her misfortune. “Karma is real,” Musk said. But as Abughazaleh said in a video on Monday announcing her campaign for Congress, she’s not afraid of standing up to Musk, especially as his influence on the federal government escalates. Instead, the 26-year-old has her eye on Illinois’ Ninth District. The current representative, the 80-year-old Democrat Jan Schakowsky, was first elected to Congress before Abughazaleh was even born. “I have ideas that I want to push, and I have a big [social media] platform,” Abughazaleh told TechCrunch on Monday. “I felt I didn’t want to wait around for someone to do something when I could do something right now.” Abughazaleh built her online audience through her work at Media Matters, where she became known for making videos decoding the rhetoric and inaccuracies of Fox News. But whe ... Read full article.