Wall Street's crackdown on FinTwit, the loose online community of traders, strategists and analysts who trade market commentary on X, has intensified, according to Bloomberg.
Traders and analysts in the community have found themselves locked out of their accounts with little explanation.
Morgan Stanley filed Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaints with X over at least 16 posts or accounts that displayed screenshots of its research, including charts and report excerpts.
At least two accounts were temporarily locked as a result.
One belonged to Ryan Detrick, chief market strategist at Carson Group, who has roughly 222,400 followers on X/
He said access returned about five minutes after he reviewed the platform's copyright policy.
FinTwit has long operated on the free circulation of bank charts and research as shorthand for market commentary, a practice Morgan Stanley's complaints now cast as a fair-use dispute rather than settled norm.
The stakes have risen with concerns that copied research can be repackaged to train or mass-produce AI-generated market commentary, making banks more protective of proprietary analysis.
X's repeat-infringer policy permits account suspension after multiple copyright complaints or a pattern of infringement, though it does not specify a threshold number of complaints.
The platform has separately tightened enforcement elsewhere, imposing a 90-day suspension from revenue sharing for undisclosed AI-generated armed-conflict videos, with permanent bans for repeat offenders.
