UK officials are monitoring social media posts by Elon Musk and others as a possible security risk. The monitoring is being carried out by a team in the Home Office's Homeland Security group, which is responsible for reducing national security risks and, according to a government website, "focuses on the highest harm risks to the homeland".

The change under consideration, which Musk says is for aesthetics, would remove vital information from the X timeline and potentially exacerbate the site's issues with misinformation.

Elon Musk shared a brief video he received from a friend in Los Angeles of the destruction from the Southern California wildfires, Wednesday. (Credit: Elon Musk via X)

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Political analyst Kevin Drum on Thursday took stock of X owner Elon Musk's promotion of falsehoods about the fires decimating California, and came away with the unsettling conclusion that his lies are becoming too numerous and fast to debunk.