Did Elon Musk just admit X underpays creators? Tesla boss slams his own company, compares it to YouTube

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday explicitly said that microblogging platform X was underpaying its content creators and praised Google-owned YouTube for its monetization scheme.

Replying to an exchange between X executive Nikita Bier, Musk unequivocally wrote, “No, the issue is that we are underpaying and not allocating payment accurately enough. YouTube does a much better job.”