X is one step closer to finally launching its payments platform. According to X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the X Money service will debut “later this year” with Visa announced as its first partner.
X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform — signaling some progress in a yearslong vision from billionaire owner Elon Musk to create an “everything app.
“In study after study, as well as our lived experiences, X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division. Under the leadership of Elon Musk, X has reduced content moderation, promoted white supremacists, and re-platformed purveyors of conspiracy theories.”
Elon Musk’s social media company, X, said on Tuesday that it was teaming up with Visa to provide financial services, in a step toward Musk’s plans of expanding it into an “everything app.” The new financial feature,
Musk has tried several different ways to boost X’s profits, including making users pay for verification, something that had previously been given to users of notoriety and journalists. On Tuesday, the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino announced a new deal with Visa for peer-to-peer payments on X.
X’s deal with Visa, the largest U.S. credit card network, was announced by CEO Linda Yaccarino and will be dubbed X Money Account.
WORD CHOICE: Brad Lander has X-ed the X in Latinx. The New York City Comptroller and candidate for mayor declared in September his office would embrace the term Latine “because it represents evolving language that more accurately reflects the range of backgrounds and gender identities encompassed by the diverse and sprawling Latin Diaspora.”
X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform — signaling some progress in a yearslong vision from billionaire owner Elon Musk to
Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant has deactivated his X social media account, formerly Twitter, amid criticism of his recent play.
X has inked a partnership with Visa as the Elon Musk-owned social media platform seeks to become an “everything" app that offers peer-to-peer payments and other capabilities.
Trump White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was praised by conservatives on social media over first performance from the press room podium on Tuesday.