Musk Wants To Ban Parody Abuse on X, a Move That Will Effect Thousands of Accounts

‘We’re rolling out updates to improve transparency for Parody, Commentary, and Fan (PCF) accounts on our platform,’ the company said in a post over the weekend.

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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is moving to ban parody account abuse from his social media platform, X. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Although the billionaire entrepreneur declared that “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy” when he bought Twitter, Elon Musk is moving to ban parody account abuse from the social media platform, which he renamed X.

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