The Harvard Crimson

Cambridge City Council Votes to Ban City Departments From Using X

The Cambridge City Council voted Monday to bar all city departments from using X, citing concerns about the spread of hate speech and disinformation on the platform. The ban, which takes effect in 60 ...
AllHipHop

Nicki Minaj X Account Using Bots, Fake Accounts To Amplify MAGA Views According To Study

Nicki Minaj faced scrutiny after a forensic report found thousands of fake accounts boosted her conservative posts on X in coordinated bot campaign. Nicki Minaj may not have the broad support her ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X

New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced ...
Mediaite

‘Why the F*ck Is X on the Big Screen?’: The Internet Reacts to X Being Pulled Up in Mar-a-Lago War Room During Maduro Capture

President Donald Trump posted pictures of his braintrust orchestrating the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro inside a Mar-a-Lago war room — and many social media users noticed something in ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Cybercriminals using AI on X to lure users into clicking bad links: cybersecurity experts

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The I-Team has uncovered a new online scam targeting users on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The scheme uses artificial intelligence in a way security experts ...
PC World

Windows drive X: Unleash ferocious speed by using RAM as storage

The drive letter X: in Windows usually stands for the use of a RAM disc. RAM refers to Random Access Memory, i.e. the working memory of your PC. You can make part of it available as a RAM disc and ...
CNN

Looking for a simple credit card reward strategy? This Amex Gold and Venture X combo is my go-to

As someone who evaluates travel products and credit cards for a living, I’ve opened more cards than I can count, but there are two that have actually earned permanent spots in my wallet. The American ...
TechSpot

X wants to call you out for using a VPN (and maybe catch a few trolls, too)

A hot potato: X, formerly known as Twitter, could soon include a disclaimer on user profiles that reveals whether they use a VPN. It comes a month after the company said it was planning to display ...
CNET

You'll Be Able to See on X's User Profiles if Someone Is Using a VPN

The social network X is expected to begin displaying in user profiles whether someone may be using a VPN to obscure their location. Based on a post in October about transparency on the platform ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...
cjr.org

X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers

Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.” “We’ve definitely seen Community Notes in the past that have been inaccurate,” said Sofia Rubinson, a senior editor at ...