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A federal appeals court has thrown out journalist Alex Berenson's lawsuit over the permanent suspension of his Twitter account in 2021, ruling that the case he built around an alleged government and industry conspiracy does not hold up in law. The decision in Berenson v. Gottlieb, issued by the Second Circuit on October 20, 2026, affirms a district court ruling that had dismissed several defendants in 2025.

A Dutch court has cleared the way for a collective damages case against X to be argued in full. On Thursday, October 22, the District Court of Amsterdam ruled that the proceedings brought by Stichting Onderzoek Marktinformatie, known as SOMI, may proceed, finding that the foundation meets all legal requirements to bring the action and appointing it the exclusive representative in the case. The case will now proceed on the merits.

X's new Terms of Service took effect on October 9, 2026, and the most telling change is a short sentence that is no longer there. The previous terms said, in the section that lets X revise the agreement, "The changes will not be retroactive." In the new version, that sentence is gone in both regional texts, according to a line-by-line comparison published by Venpo, which monitors vendor terms.

For years, people who wanted to read public posts on X without signing in had a quiet workaround. Nitter, an open-source project, fetched public posts and presented them in a clean, lightweight view, stripping out ads, tracking cookies and heavy scripts. Services such as XCancel were built on top of it, and many readers treated those pages as their front door to the platform.

Your X inbox has a new doorbell. On September 22, X launched X Numbers, a feature for its XChat messaging service that gives you a private code you can share with anyone you want to be able to reach you — no phone number, no follow back, no accepted message request required.