Google Trends shows interest over time regarding "suspended X account" and "inauthentic behavior" words.
Something is wrong here.
But X Team still hasn't made an announcement.
Something suspicious is happening on X right now, and the timing is too perfect to ignore.
X's product head Nikita Bier just confirmed a new feature in development: accounts that were auto-suspended for spam will be offered FaceID verificati****on to prove they're human and recover their account.
Now look at what's also happening in April: X is suspending roughly 208 bot accounts per minute, with many legitimate accounts caught in the crossfire.
Here's the theory: The mass suspensions are creating the test population for this feature.
You can't properly test a biometric recovery flow in a lab. You need thousands of real suspended users, people who are genuinely human and highly motivated to verify themselves. A bot purge that also sweeps up innocent accounts provides exactly that.
Mass suspend → offer FaceID → measure conversion, friction, false positive rate → refine before full rollout.
The collateral damage to real users is real and frustrating. But from a product perspective, this wave might be doing double duty.
Coincidence or calculated? You decide.
And would you do this to have your account unsuspended?