Twitter will ban unlabelled parody accounts, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk says Twitter users engaging successful impersonation without intelligibly specifying it arsenic a parody relationship volition beryllium permanently suspended.

Twitter antecedently issued a informing earlier suspending accounts, but determination would present beryllium nary warning, helium announced.

A fig of accounts that changed their sanction to Elon Musk and mocked the billionaire person already been suspended oregon placed down a informing sign.

Twitter's billionaire caller proprietor took implicit the institution precocious past month.

At the extremity of past week helium laid disconnected astir fractional of the company's workforce.

He has besides confirmed plans to let users to bargain blue-tick, verified status.

Detailing the caller argumentation connected parody accounts, Mr Musk tweeted: "Previously, we issued a informing earlier suspension, but present that we are rolling retired wide verification, determination volition beryllium nary warning."

He added that "any sanction alteration astatine each volition origin impermanent nonaccomplishment of verified checkmark".

Several accounts that had changed their sanction to the caller Twitter proprietor person been suspended oregon placed down a informing sign, including those of US comedian Kathy Griffin and erstwhile NFL subordinate Chris Kluwe.

Other accounts, including 1 parodying erstwhile US President Donald Trump by comedian Tim Heidecker, are yet to beryllium suspended.

Mr Musk has antecedently said helium opposed imperishable bans connected Twitter, including that of Mr Trump's authoritative account. Mr Musk said past week that banned accounts would not beryllium reinstated until determination was "a wide process for doing so". He pointed retired that helium was not banning an relationship that followed his backstage plane.

The New York Times reported connected Sunday that Twitter was delaying the rollout of verification cheque marks to subscribers of its caller work until aft Tuesday's US midterm elections. At the weekend, the societal media site's website app began offering an update that volition complaint $8 (£7) a period for its blue, verified checkmark.

On Friday, the billionaire said Twitter was losing much than $4m per day, insisting that this gave him "no choice" implicit culling astir fractional the company's 7,500-strong workforce.

The cuts - arsenic good arsenic Mr Musk's fierce advocacy of escaped code - person caused speculation that Twitter could h2o down its efforts connected contented moderation.

However, Mr Musk has insisted that the firm's stance towards harmful worldly remains "absolutely unchanged". UN quality rights main Volker Turk wrote him an unfastened letter, informing that Twitter had a work to debar amplifying harmful content.