Businessman Elon Musk’s social media platform X brings new rules for parody accounts.
With the rules to be taken, at the beginning of the accounts that mimic another user or person from April 10, the obligation to use keywords such as “fake” or “parody”. In addition, parody account holders will be required to use different images from the X accounts of the people they want to represent. “These changes are made to better understand the dependence accounts from parody, comment and admiration (PCF) accounts, and reduce the risk of challenge or fraud,” the company said in a statement made by the Company. The accounts of the update of the accounts until April 10 warning in the statement said that the changes will affect the fans and commentary accounts said.
Numerous users complain about the confusion caused by a large number of parody accounts that mimic Elon Musk, the owner of X. In a short sharing of a Musk Parody account with more than one million followers, users were told to “like and comment” for the chance to win Tesla and this post received more than 200 thousand comments.
The X had first published its rules that require users who imitate themselves to identify themselves in this way in January, with “labels” for parody accounts.
