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FILE - Elon Musk, who owns Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX, speaks at the Vivatech fair, June 16, 2023, in Paris. LONDON, UK — Elon Musk's social media platform X has begun charging a $1 fee to new users in the Philippines and New Zealand, in a test designed to cut down on theThe company said late Tuesday that it has started trying out the annual subscription method for new and unverified accounts. The program, dubbed Not a Bot, won't apply to existing users.
“This new test was developed to bolster our already successful efforts to reduce spam, manipulation of our platform and bot activity, while balancing platform accessibility with the small fee amount,” the X support account tweeted. “It is not a profit driver.” If X decides to roll out the $1 fee worldwide, it could be"disastrous" for the platform, said Kolina Koltai, a researcher at the investigative collective Bellingcat who previously worked at Twitter.
Since Musk bought the company a year ago, he has introduced a slew of changes such as renaming the platform and
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