2023-10-18 14:23:07
Social network X, formerly known as Twitter, announced that it began charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines to use basic functions such as posting messages.
X, owned since last year by billionaire Elon Musk, said in a statement that its new subscription method should “reinforce” existing efforts to reduce spam and “manipulation of our platform and bot activity.”
Under the trial, new users in the Philippines and New Zealand will have to pay X between $0.75 and $0.85, respectively, each year to access basic functionality such as posting to the site.
Those who refuse to pay the nominal fee will only have access to a “read-only” version of the platform, which will limit them to reading posts, watching videos and following accounts, according to the company.
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“This will be a potentially powerful measure to help us combat bots and spammers on X, while balancing the accessibility of the platform with the small amount of the fee,” he added.
On the other hand, existing users in these countries will not be affected. Musk has made a series of controversial changes to the social network’s management and products since acquiring Twitter last year for $44 billion.
He recently proposed the idea of charging all users a nominal fee to use the site, in an attempt to combat fake accounts, which drew harsh criticism from users around the world.
More changes
Another of X’s recent announcements is that from now on it will require the inclusion of verified sources in the Community Notes, which must be eligible to give context to the social network’s publications.
The company deployed this collaborative feature at the end of last year with the aim of combating misinformation on the social network and adding information to potentially misleading information. These notes are displayed publicly if enough contributors with different points of view rate them as useful.
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Hence, it has decided to force its users to enter verified sources so that the information they add as context in certain publications is eligible. As the only exception, X has clarified that sources will not be required for those notes “that explain why it is not necessary to add context” to said publication.
He also clarified that “what matters are links to real data sources,” not to discredited press articles, sources that he considers “exist as a propaganda tool.”
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