{"id":1010056,"date":"2026-05-26T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010056"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:40:12","slug":"elon-musks-x-overhauls-creator-payouts-demonetizes-stolen-viral-videos-to-crack-down-on-engagement-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/26\/elon-musks-x-overhauls-creator-payouts-demonetizes-stolen-viral-videos-to-crack-down-on-engagement-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s X overhauls creator payouts, demonetizes stolen viral videos to crack down on engagement farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, is now cracking down on accounts that repost viral videos from smaller creators in order to farm engagement and earn money through the platform&#8217;s monetisation programme. <\/p>\n<p>Nikita Bier revamps X creator monetization programme: <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, the platform\u2019s Head of Product Nikita Bier said the company had identified a number of large accounts that \u201chave been programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts to game the revenue share program and circumvent crediting the original author.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, is now cracking down on accounts that repost viral videos from smaller creators in order to farm engagement and earn money through the platform&#8217;s monetisation programme. Nikita Bier revamps X creator monetization programme: In a post on X, the platform\u2019s Head of Product Nikita Bier said the company had identified a number of large accounts that \u201chave been programmatically reuploading content from smaller accounts to game the revenue share program and circumvent crediting the original author.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010063,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010056\/revisions\/1010063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}