Private Law Theory

On the 10th of April 2025, new rules came into force as part of Elon Musk’s crackdown on impersonation accounts on X (formerly known as Twitter). Under these rules, any account that impersonates, parodies, or caricatures another comes under two requirements: first, that their username must begin with a keyword like ‘fake’ or ‘parody’; and second, that the account cannot use the same profile picture as the account they imitate. Broadly, then, these rules mean that a user cannot post any parodic or caricaturing content to X/Twitter unless they differentiate themselves from the original account in this specific way … (more)

[James Hall, Kluwer Copyright Blog, 7 May 2025]