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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.

The Like button on X is about to be worth money. Elon Musk announced on Sunday, October 25, 2026, that X is adding a way to send money with a single gesture: press and hold the Like button on a post, and one dollar goes to its author through X Money. “We’re adding long press on like to send someone $1 via X Money,” Musk wrote in a post on the platform.

Texas voters are watching one of the country's most expensive Senate races unfold in two places at once: at rallies across the state, and in short public posts on X. The platform's owner, Elon Musk, is not a bystander in the contest between Democratic nominee James Talarico and Republican nominee Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general. He is a participant, posting attacks on Talarico from his own account while his money backs Paxton.

If you have connected a scheduling tool to X in the past few weeks, you have probably met the warning. The authorization screen tells you, in X's own words, that "This app is not affiliated with X and is requesting sensitive permissions," and it asks you to tick a box labeled "I trust this app" before you can continue. It looks like a security alert. According to reporting published on Friday by FutureTweets, it is not a glitch, and it is not going away.

A Colorado appeals court has thrown out a 10 million dollar verdict against X Corp., ruling that a Boulder judge misinterpreted the company's former lease there. The Colorado Court of Appeals reversed the judgment on Thursday, October 22, in a unanimous decision by a three-judge panel, and the case now returns to Boulder.

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 faced one of its sharpest warnings yet from a government on Thursday, October 22, when a South Korean lawmaker told a National Assembly audit hearing that drug sales and sex-trafficking posts remain searchable on the platform, and that if the situation is not improved by the end of this year, X should be designated a harmful site and its access blocked.

Polymarket's official presence on X has gone dark for users in India. On Thursday, October 22, users inside the country began sharing screenshots of X's standard account-withheld notice on the prediction market's profile, stating that the account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand. Indian users can no longer view the profile or its posts, while outside India the account continues to function normally.

Nearly one in four accounts that follow or amplify the X account @Wallface show bot-like signals, according to a study published on October 21 by the Antisemitism Research Center, part of the Combat Antisemitism Movement. The finding is a reminder for everyday users that follower counts and repost totals on X do not always reflect real people paying attention.

The posts that hold your attention the longest are about to get a bigger push on X. On Tuesday, October 20, Elon Musk announced two updates to the platform's timeline recommendation system: a new AI ranking model built to predict more accurately how long users will spend on a post, and a new retrieval model trained to surface posts that people read all the way through.