USA: On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted that any Twitter account that impersonates another will have their account permanently suspended.

In response to the billionaire's decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for US$8, as well as laying off a significant portion of the workforce, some celebrities changed their Twitter display names, not their account names. and tweeted as "Elon Musk". The new owner of the platform issued a warning.

"Any Twitter account that uses impersonation in the future without explicitly stating "parody" will be permanently suspended," Musk wrote. Twitter used to issue notifications before the suspension, but "as an implementation of comprehensive verification, there will be no notifications,"
In fact, the world's richest man claimed that "any name change" would require the temporary loss of a verified checkmark.

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Comedian Kathy Griffin suspended her account after changing her screen name to Musk on Sunday. He admitted to using his profile picture in front of a Bloomberg reporter.

Obviously, not all content moderators were fired. Lol," Griffin quipped on Mastodon, an alternative social media site where she recently created an account.

Similar to Valerie Bertinelli, who used Musk's screen name to tweet in support of Democratic candidates on Saturday before returning to his real name. "Okay. I had a great time, and I believe I get my point," she later tweeted.

Bertinelli noted the original intent behind the blue verification checkmark before the prank. It was given free of charge to individuals whose identities were verified by Twitter employees, with journalists making up a large portion of the recipients. It only meant that your identity was confirmed. According to Bertinelli, it will be more difficult for scammers to pose like you.

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That is no longer true. Good luck to you all!" she wished.
According to Musk, his strategy is to make the US$8 verified account service more accessible.

Users who "sign up now" for the new "Twitter Blue with Verification" can receive a blue check next to their name "just like if you already follow celebrities, companies, and politicians." ,” according to a Twitter update for iOS devices on Apple's App Store on Saturday.

It added that the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK will be the first countries to offer this service. However, there was no indication when it would go live and it was not available on Sunday. Esther Crawford, a Twitter employee, told The Associated Press it would launch "soon," but not yet.

An email was sent to Twitter on Sunday for comment on the problem with verified accounts and Griffin's suspension did not elicit a response.

Musk later tweeted, "Twitter needs to emerge as the world's most trusted information source. That's our goal.

The disinformation on the platform could increase during Tuesday's midterm election if the company decided to remove blue checks from existing verified users, which has not happened.

After layoffs reportedly affected half of Twitter's 7,500 employees and began on Friday, some users of the social media platform have begun switching to Counter Social, another popular option.

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Griffin isn't the only one of these users to have done so. They worry that glitches in moderation and verification could lead to misinformation in the free-for-all, which has previously been the primary channel for reliable communication from government organizations and other institutions on the Internet.

Because they were concerned that Musk would further clutter the platform, many businesses stopped running ads on it.
Twitter's chief of security and integrity, Joel Roth, attempted to address these concerns in a tweet on Friday. He claimed that the group least affected by the job cuts was the company's front-line content moderation staff.

Musk said in a tweet late Friday that "the job cuts were necessary when the company was losing more than $4M/day." He said employees were offered three months' salary when they lost their jobs, but did not elaborate on Twitter's daily losses.