X.com users have begun reporting instances of Elon Musk’s new shadow-ban transparency policy, under which accounts are flagged by the company without user input for “potentially” containing sensitive media.
Australia’s top censor, E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, has slapped X.com with a fine of 610,500 Australian dollars (approximately $386,000) for violating the country’s new Online Safety Act.
X.com users who agree to the platform’s new Terms of Service, effective Sept. 28, are authorizing the company to use their public posts to train its AI and machine learning models.
Records show the single-letter domain name X.com was transferred from brand protection registration firm MarkMonitor on behalf of client PayPal to GoDaddy, where it’s under whois privacy protection.