TECH - Elon Musk's Move to Demonetize Content Attracting Community Notes A Blow To Online Humor? X Users Weigh In | Benzinga
Elon Musk’s announcement about withholding monetization from posts that get community noted on X (formerly Twitter) has triggered a divisive response among users, prompting discussions about the impact on online humor and content accuracy.
What Happened: On Sunday, Musk took to X and said any post on the platform that got corrected by Community Notes would become “ineligible for revenue share.”
These notes are part of X’s crowdsourced fact-checking system and are intended to add context or correct information in posts.
According to the tech billionaire, the rationale behind this decision is to prioritize “accuracy over sensationalism.” By doing so, he hopes to discourage the spread of inaccurate or misleading information on the platform.
However, the implications of this change have received mixed reactions from netizens.