New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Get your shortnames while the getting’s good.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-launches-says-musks-x-gave-up-the-name/

A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.

Lol, they added ‘Grok is this true’ to the entire platform, just dead on arrival.