Elon Musk, who welcomed Trump and Kanye back to Twitter when he bought it, tweeted Sunday that the platform will permanently suspend any account on the social media platform that impersonates another.
Elon issued the warning after some celebrities changed their Twitter display names and tweeted as ‘Elon Musk’ in reaction to the billionaire’s decision to offer verified accounts to all comers for $8 month.
“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying ‘parody’ will be permanently suspended,” Musk wrote. While Twitter previously issued warnings before suspensions, now that it is rolling out ‘widespread verification, there will be no warning.’
In fact, ‘any name change at all’ would force a temporary loss of a verified checkmark.
Comedian Kathy Griffin had her account suspended Sunday for switching her screen name to Musk.
Actress Valerie Bertinelli had done the same – posting a series of tweets in support of Democratic candidates on Saturday before switching back to her true name. ‘Okey-dokey. I’ve had fun and I think I made my point,’ she tweeted afterward.
To be honest I get it. You can see from the example below. This is the tweet put out by Kathy Griffith, but the tweet clearly appears to be from that of Elon. That’s that same spread of misinformation everyone complained about from Trump.
