Elon Musk’s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the “massive” scale of attempts to manipulate the platform. As part of the battle against such content, X suspended 800m accounts in 2024 for breaching its rules on platform manipulation and spam, although it did not reveal which of those suspensions related to foreign interference. Fernández added he was “quite confident” that the remaining accounts on X were authentic. X defines manipulative accounts as those that engage in “bulk, aggressive or disruptive activity that misleads others and/or disrupts their experience”. It refers to spam as “unsolicited, repeated actions” that affect other accounts, often meaning a stream of low-quality content.

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2026 05:05 UTC