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After researchers flagged verified users on X (formerly known as Twitter) as top superspreaders of Israel/Hamas misinformation and the European Union launched a probe into X, Elon Musk has vowed to get verified X users back in check.
On Sunday, Musk announced that “any posts that are corrected by @CommunityNotes”—X’s community-sourced fact-checking feature—will “become ineligible for revenue share.”
“The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism,” Musk said, warning that “any attempts to weaponize @CommunityNotes to demonetize people will be immediately obvious, because all code and data is open source.”
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