{
  "id": 3366194,
  "title": "XCancel, the Twitter/X Mirror, Shuts Down After Cease and Desist From the Fine Folks at X Corp",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/25/xcancel-the-twitter-x-mirror-shuts-down-after-cease-and-desist-from",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-25T22:44:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daring Fireball",
    "slug": "daring-fireball",
    "url": "https://xcancel.com/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "XCancel: On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won’t share more details for now. Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel. I didn’t want to jinx them, but this obvious threat hanging over their head was the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}