India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over “obscene” AI content
India’s IT ministry has given X 72 hours to submit an action-taken report.
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X deactivates European Commission’s ad account after the company was fined €120M
X has seemingly penalized the European Commission’s account after the commission fined the company over blue checkmarks and ad transparency.
In its first DSA penalty, EU fines X €120M for ‘deceptive’ blue check verification system
The EC is taking issue with the fact that X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has been allowing anyone to buy a “blue checkmark,” the platform’s long-standing symbol that a user has been verified to be who they are claiming to be.
X’s new About This Account feature is going great
A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems questionable.
Pew’s latest social media report shows X’s staying power in the U.S., despite competition
X is still used by 21% of U.S. adults, Pew found, only down from 23% in 2021, despite increased competition from Meta, startups, and decentralized social media.
X begins rolling out the ‘About this account’ feature to users’ profiles
The feature will show where users are based, how they’re connected to X, and how many times they’ve changed their username.
Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on ‘latent bug’
An outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare took down several big websites and services, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, and X.
Elon Musk’s X botched its security key switchover, locking users out
As part of an effort to retire the old Twitter.com domain, X is requiring passkey and security key users to re-enroll — but are getting stuck in endless loops and unable to finish.