Oh Elon, need to help a fellow right-wing propagandist by preventing his precious account from falling into "enemy" hands?
Musk's X claims ownership of InfoWars accounts in sale to The Onion https://www.axios.com/2024/11/26/musk-x-infowars-onion-social-media"Regardless of the accounts' use, X Corp. is plainly the owner of the X Accounts and the Services, and the Trustee cannot sell, assign, or otherwise transfer what it does not own or have an interest in," the company argued.
I can't remember this ever happening before, so Elon Musk may (try to) set a dangerous precedent here. The key may now be the user agreement. Does it say that all accounts belong to the company running the platform? If yes, I would expect a large user movement away from X, because your account can be snatched by the big boss whenever he feels so.
If that statement is however not part of the user agreement and X wants to enforce that view, it would affect
all users on all social media platforms. That's a can of worms even the richest person in the world may not want to open...
