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X (formerly Twitter) is a social media platform for real-time posts, messaging, and public conversation, with a developer API and advertising tools.
X suspended more than 13,000 accounts it ties to Iranian, Russian and Chinese influence operations before the Nov. 3 midterms. SC Media reported that X did not provide specific evidence for the attributions.
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FBI warns that scammers are using AI-generated voices, images and messages to pose as candidates three weeks before the 2026 midterms. Cofense's Max Gannon says to verify any solicitation through the FEC website or vote.gov, never the link sent.
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Polymarket is paying more than 800 X users in crypto to quote-post its esports accounts, ReaderGrev reported. A representative told them to "look organic", and many posts still appear to carry X's paid-partnership label.
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Memphis City Council voted 7-5 to put off a data center moratorium until Oct. 20. For anyone financing the buildout that is a dated permitting risk, and Washington's China explanation does little to remove it.
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Sheinbaum signed a decree giving Meta, TikTok, X and other platforms one month to restrict minors' exposure to harmful content. The penalty is a bill the government says it would back, so the first cost is design work against a mid-November date.
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Heatmap counts at least $260 billion of data center investment canceled this year after local pushback, about half of it in the last three months. Governors in New York and Texas have paused new projects, so permitting delay is now a cost for AI buildouts.
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COLDCARD says its official X account posted a phishing link on October 11, despite offline two-factor protection the wallet maker has used since 2017. With no explanation yet from COLDCARD or X, a security alert seen on social media is worth acting on only once the maker's own website repeats it.
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Tom Watson, a recruitment-firm founder, is accused of running an X account with almost 50,000 followers that doxxed executives who hire minority staff. Companies that name one executive as the public face of diverse hiring now have that person's safety to plan for.
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Ofcom is investigating whether Meta carried out suitable illegal-content and children's risk assessments before launching Instagram Instants in May. For product teams shipping to UK users, the case turns on when the risk work has to be finished and how much of it counts.
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Lawyers for Cornell's Jane Doe say three women were falsely identified and harassed by people trying to unmask her. The Verge traces the hunt to X and Substack, mainstream platforms it says are doing nothing to stop it.
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Webull joined X's Cashtag program on Oct. 2 as a sixth US partner, linking stock and crypto posts to its quotes and order ticket. Trades still execute at the broker, so its quickest converts are X users who already have a Webull login.
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Meta, TikTok and X are fighting Ofcom in a London court over moderation data demands under a law that allows fines of up to 10% of global turnover. The ruling sets how much the platforms must count and hand over, a week before Meta separately contests how Ofcom calculates fees and penalties.
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Unknown attackers hijacked @Microsoft, the company's X account with more than 13 million followers, on Thursday to promote a $Clippy crypto token. Microsoft has not said how they got in, and the takeover fits a run of crypto-scam hijacks of verified accounts on X.
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SpaceXAI is weighing a four-tier X and Grok subscription, from free to a $100-a-month Ultra plan, according to a company document Bloomberg viewed. The draft prices X by how much Grok you use and keeps the checkmark at today's cost.
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Anthropic says Claude was used to build a commercial Malaysian election-manipulation platform that ran about 1,000 X accounts targeting 222 constituencies. Writing the content now takes prompts instead of staff, so AI vendors share the policing with the social platforms that still carry the posts.
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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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RuntimeWire says a captured WIRED homepage session sent Pinterest 90 audience-segment events plus fields labelled email_sha256 and fingerprint. That traffic sits in request bodies, where a tally of outside domains cannot see it.
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Meta and YouTube reinstated ads for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' on Saturday, a day after a report that four platforms had refused them. For marketers working near politics, YouTube's fix came through its review queue and Meta's came in reply to a reporter.
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Ireland's DPC takes a median 6.2 years to decide a cross-border GDPR case, a LessWrong analysis finds. The AI Act gives the Commission five years from a violation to fine, and it requires the same investigation and response steps that take up most of the Irish cases.
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US Justice Department lawyers have asked to join X's court challenge to its 120 million euro EU fine, the first penalty under the Digital Services Act. Before any argument on the merits, a Luxembourg court has to decide whether Washington may join the case at all.
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