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Peoples of Middle-earth, take heed: the One Ring has a new master, not dark but beautiful, and terrible as the dawn, treacherous as the sea, stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love him, and despair.

Twitter—which Elon Musk has desperately tried to convince users is now called “X”—wants users to display their $8 a month blue checkmark prominently on their page.
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Elon Musk announced he was changing Twitter’s name to X In the last week of July, reflecting the billionaire’s life-long obsession with the letter, which is a very normal thing for an adult man to have.
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X, formerly known as Twitter, sued the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on Monday, arguing that the nonprofit “embarked on a scare campaign to drive away advertisers from the X platform” and illegally accessed the X’s data. The lawsuit came days after Twitter unbanned Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye…