X’s new “inauthentic behavior” wave may be hitting Brave users hardest, and Elon says it’s being looked into

It looks like a chunk of Brave users are reporting trouble with X, with some saying they’re running into “inauthentic behavior” flags, account restrictions, or broken login and verification flows.

This isn’t entirely new for us. Back in March, we covered a similar wave when X users said their accounts were being banned for “inauthentic behaviors,” and the company later admitted a spam-enforcement issue had wrongly hit real accounts. You can read our earlier coverage here.

That time, reports were all over the place, and there was no mention of the issue impacting users on any specific browsers.

The basic theory is that X may be tripping over signals from privacy-focused browsers, or at least from some browser setups that don’t behave the way X expects. The appeal process has also been pretty doggy for the most part. Users have been running into errors or just stuck with the AI-based process that isn’t helpful.

Still, all this doesn’t mean Brave is confirmed as the cause. There are several other reports from users who don’t mention their browser. So we can’t pin the blame on Brave.

Luckily, the complaints are being heard. X’s top boss has stepped in. Elon Musk replied “Looking into it” to one of the public complaints about the issue, which confirms that X is at least aware of what’s going on, even if there’s no full explanation yet.

Meanwhile, Brave CEO Brendan Eich has also been active in replies. He pointed people to a GitHub issue on Brave’s side that tracks X login trouble and suggested X’s anti-bot systems may be generating false positives, while also mentioning that at least one Firefox report had surfaced too.

So could this wave of suspensions be impacting users on privacy-focused browsers? Maybe. But again, there’s very little evidence to support the claim.

Eich’s responses hint at how complicated this might be behind the scenes. If X’s anti-abuse or anti-bot systems lean heavily on browser signals, fingerprints, or network behavior, then anything that tweaks those things, like a privacy-focused browser or strict settings, can accidentally look shady. This could explain why random accounts are being suspended.

Until X or Brave share something more concrete, we’d suggest taking this information with a grain of salt.

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