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Authenticity

April 2025

You may not engage in inauthentic activity that undermines the integrity of X.

We want X to be a place where people have authentic experiences. To make that possible, we do not allow any activity that attempts to manipulate our platform or disrupt our services through inauthentic accounts, behaviors or content .

Inauthentic Accounts

Accounts on X must be authentic. Under this policy, you may not create, operate, or mass-register accounts that are not legitimate, genuine and transparent as to their source, identity, and popularity. This includes:

Unauthorized automation: Automated or scripted accounts that do not comply with our Developer Policy. Please note that as a user you are ultimately responsible for third-party applications you may authorize to access or use your account.

Fake personas:  You may not use manufactured identities to engage in disruptive or deceptive behavior. This may include using stock, stolen or AI-generated profile photos, copied or stolen profile bios, and/or misleading profile information for the purpose of deceiving others.

Impersonation:  You may not impersonate other identities of individuals, groups, or organizations to deceive others. Although you are not required to display your real identity on your profile, your account should not use false profile information to impersonate others. We allow compliant Parody, Commentary, and Fan (PCF) accounts on X only if the purpose is to discuss, satirize or share information. If you believe an account is posing as you or your brand, you can file a report here.

Learn more about how to be PCF compliant

Accounts may depict another entity as long as they clearly indicate that they are unaffiliated. If your account is a Parody, Commentary, or Fan account (PCF), you must meet ALL of the following requirements to clarify its purpose and avoid misleading others about its affiliation:

Include a PCF label;<br>do not use an identical avatar as the entity;<br>include terms such as "parody," "fake," "fan," or "commentary at the beginning of your account name; and<br>include terms such as "parody," "fake," "fan," or "commentary in your bio or profile description.

Learn more about how to add a PCF label here.

Multiple Accounts and Coordination: We prohibit coordinated inauthentic activity that artificially influences conversations or disrupts X.

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Not Allowed

Operating multiple accounts that interact with the same or substantially similar content or in order to inflate or manipulate the prominence of content and/or accounts by, for example, creating multiple accounts to:

“boost” trending topics or hashtags;

engage with the same posts, accounts, or polls;

misuse the mention/reply feature; and

amplify one of your own accounts by misusing engagement features.

Operating multiple accounts that post substantially similar or identical content to one another by, for example, cross-posting:

content across multiple accounts (content that is cross-posted but localized into another language is permitted); and

similar or duplicate content to the same trending topics or hashtags.

Employing workarounds to exceed the technical limits of account creation (e.g., account phone number limits). X allows users to create and/or operate up to ten (10) accounts for different, non-duplicative purposes.

Allowed

Operating multiple accounts with distinct identities, purposes, or use cases that comply with our technical limits of account creation (e.g. account phone number limits), such as:

accounts tracking when objects in space travel over a specific location on Earth, e.g. New York, Hong Kong;<br>accounts sharing news about different professional teams in the same sport or league, e.g. NFL, NBA, Premier League;<br>accounts for personal projects, hobbies/interests, or for your business(es);<br>accounts for branded entities specific to unique locations or languages, e.g. brand accounts in English, Spanish and French;<br>control multiple accounts on behalf of a third-party (e.g. “Social Media Managers”), provided that no violations of X Rules (including this policy) occurs;<br>organizations with related but separate chapters or branches, such as a business with multiple locations; and<br>operating a personal account in addition to pseudonymous accounts or accounts associated with your hobbies or...