Talk:Twitter under Elon Musk

Category:Far-right politics and social media

The article is included in Category:Far-right politics and social media, but unlike other pages like newspapers or blogs X is a social network, it has no webmaster writing anything or any content whatsoever other than what users want to post. And yes, it surely has far-right posts... same as it has far-left, standard right, standard left, center, apolitical, "they can all go to hell", and basically all topics that someone may want to talk about. So we either include this category, along with all the subcategories of Category:Websites by topic (a truly futile task, BTW)... or just ignore them all, and strick to the other categories the article already has. Cambalachero (talk) 17:43, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Its category "Far-right politics and social media" not "Far-right social media" and there appears to be significant discussion of far-right politics and social media in the article (Account suspensions and reinstatements)... And there is no requirement to include all categories or ignore them. That being said I agree that its not a great category for the page as currently constructed. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:48, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Then that would make it a random category intersection of two unrelated criteria. Cambalachero (talk) 14:14, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

@Horse Eye's Back and Cambalachero: This is specifically about Musk's acquisition and the changes wrought thereafter. I added alt-tech, seeing X has been included within that term by RS (alt is more veritably a reference to the alt-right rather than 'alternative'). Anyone can post on 4/8chan (and other chans), Gab, Truth Social etc. but we do not deny their far/alt-right associations. As it relates to Musk, this appears to be an apt cat. Gotitbro (talk) 07:15, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

The categorization can be referenced? Big deal. I wouldn't expect any less, all categories in all articles must be. That's the bare minimum, but enough in itself, as other criteria may apply. In this case, we don't categorize topics by their opinions over stuff, or because allegations others may do. See Wikipedia:Overcategorization#By opinion or preference of an issue or topic Cambalachero (talk) 14:25, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Hardly an opinion and we are already on a subtopic of a subtopic (acquisition of Twitter>transition under Musk). I wouldn't really term cats here as overcategorization. Gotitbro (talk) 19:43, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

An opinion is an opinion regardless of the support it may have, and we can not categorize based on opinions. And being a parent topic article or a subtopic article is irrelevant, the policy of overcategorization applies either way. Cambalachero (talk) 05:11, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

The structure of the website has become increasingly run with a more right wing slant. Grok has been saying things about Aparthied in South Africa which are very openly white supremacist. Verification is paid and advertisements are every couple posts, you cannot block advertisements (very pro-business and profit at expense of user experience), less neo-Nazis have been banned, the gender ratio of people working for the website has become extremely skewed towards men, among other things. While it is still a social media website, it is hard to separate the functionality and business itself from a right wing approach to running a social media business. I think this case can be made. However, this doesn't mean this page as it exists now represents that per se, I just don't think it's fair to say it's entirely removed. Averagecryptid (talk) 07:50, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

EU enforcement actions

I would like to write a couple paragraphs on the enforcement of the EU Digital Services Act in relation to Twitter/X, including the €120 million fine imposed earlier this month by the European Commission (see section Enforcement actions on VLOPs and VLOSEs) but I'm not sure where in the article this would fit the best. Technically it is not a lawsuit but a regulatory proceeding so the Lawsuits section isn't an exact match. Though Twitter/X may start a lawsuit for judicial review of the Commission non-compliance decision but so far they haven't done so. Samoasambia ✎ 13:06, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Requested Move @Twitter

You are invited to join the discussions at Talk:Twitter § Requested move 9 February 2026. Some1 (talk) 04:30, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Requested move 2 March 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. WP:SNOW close. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jeffrey34555 (talk) 00:39, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

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Twitter under Elon Musk → X under Elon MuskX under Elon Musk – This is the new name. The main article has been recently moved. Interstellarity (talk) 11:54, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose This article is specifically about how Musk acquired Twitter and transformed it into X; the current title conveys that more clearly. 162 etc. (talk) 16:00, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose per 162 etc.'s reasoning. It would not make sense to rename this article to X under Elon Musk. GSK (talk • edits) 19:43, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose per arguments made above. Agnieszka653 (talk) 21:58, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Oppose per these reasonings/arguments above. ~2026-13604-49 (talk) 04:56, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose this article as others have stated is about time period when it was twitter under Musk. It is a period of time. It is not X forever going forward, we have another corporate article about that. Jtbobwaysf (talk) 05:35, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Oppose. Per stated arguments/reasons/explanations above.

Second, "X under Elon Musk" would have every of his companies and stuff with the letter X on it (e.g: SpaceX, X.com, Tesla Model X) covered in that page. So we're sticking to "Twitter under Elon Musk" instead. SuperMario231 64 (talk) 16:18, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.