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X will start charging new users $1 per year: Elon Musk
The company is rolling out the test of this new programme in New Zealand and the Philippines, before it launches it globally. X will require new users in New Zealand and the Philippines to pay $1 to create accounts. “Read for free, but $1/year to write. It’s the only way to fight bots without blocking real users,” Musk posted.
US labour board accuses Musk’s X of illegally firing employee
The X (formerly Twitter) employee Yao Yue encouraged others in the company’s Slack group to let it fire them instead of quitting, she was fired for breaking an unspecified company policy.
X adopts FB Group-like member vetting feature to enhance its Communities
The company has announced that admins of private Communities on X will now need members to answer a question as well as agree to the group's guidelines when requesting to join. "Gatekeeping allowed - admins of private communities can now require people to answer a question first before being able to join," X said on Friday.
X Corp banned over 5L accounts for policy violations in India in Sep
The micro-blogging platform, going through a churning under Musk who has recently appointed a new X CEO Linda Yaccarino, also took down 1,675 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country.
X removes Hamas-affiliated accounts as its CEO drops out of key tech event
The platform said it is also continuing to proactively monitor for antisemitic speech. "We have taken action to remove several hundred accounts attempting to manipulate trending topics. Community Notes are now live on posts and new accounts are being enrolled in real time to propose and rate notes," said the social media network.
You can now limit replies to verified users on X
In a post, X said that “you can now limit replies to verified users”.
Elon Musk's X now showing ‘clickbait’ ads that users can't block or report
Mashable reported that X users now see “unlabeled ads in their feeds” while scrolling. When users tap on those ads they take them to third-party websites, with no way to block or report them. “The new ads also don't disclose who the advertiser is or that they are even ads,” the report mentioned.
X stops showing headlines with articles, allows only image & domain name
The change has been spotted by iOS users who, when tried to post a link, saw only an image and the domain name, reports The Verge.
Yaccarino says X seeing 500 mn posts per day, contradicts Musk’s statement
This clearly contradicts what Musk said last month, informing that X users were generating a lot of content -- creating 100 to 200 million posts every day, excluding reposts.
Elon Musk, his X platform face fresh lawsuits in US
The lawsuit alleged that Musk defamed Benjamin Brody by saying he “participated in a violent street brawl on behalf of a neo-Nazi extremist group”.
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