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[ad_1] Elon Musk has said that corrections to posts on X would no longer be eligible for payment as the social network comes under mounting criticism as becoming a conduit for misinformation. In the year since taking over Twitter, now rebranded as X, Musk has gutted content moderation, restored accounts of previously banned extremists, and allowed users to purchase account verification, helping them profit from viral -- but often inaccurate -- posts.Musk has instead promoted Community Notes, in which X users police the platform, as a tool to combat misinformation. But on Sunday, Musk tweeted a modification in how Community Notes works. "Making a slight change to creator monetization: Any posts that are corrected by @CommunityNotes become ineligible for revenue share," he wrote."The idea...

[ad_1] Many experts have criticized X (formerly Twitter) for letting misinformation spread on its platform in the past. But a new low for the platform came on Thursday, October 19, when a fact-checking website found that the owner of the platform, Elon Musk, was spreading misinformation through one of his posts on X. The post in question is a video that had a series of screenshots of news headlines where the efficacy of various COVID-19 vaccines was shown to decline in order of percentage. The fact-checker called it misleading and missing context. Interestingly, Musk has been vocal on the platform against the social and government-based pressure of getting the vaccine. The AFP fact-checker posted a detailed breakdown of the video and said, “A video shared by Elon Musk stitches together ...

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Elon Musk pulls plug on paying for X factchecks

After Elon Musk posts video on X, fact-checker calls it misleading