Ammon News - Having earlier admitted that X was “underpaying” content creators, Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk on Wednesday hinted that the social media platform was considering increasing payments to compete with YouTube.

Responding to a tweet calling for higher payouts to creators, Musk tagged X's head of product, Nikita Bier, saying flat out, “Ok, let's do it, but rigorously enforcing no gaming of the system.”

Bier, too, responded promptly, telling Musk that X was “On it.”

“We have a new method that should wipe out 99% fraud,” Bier added, addressing the second part of Musk's suggestion.

Musk's tweet elicited an enthusiastic response from independent journalist Nick Shirley, who had recently made headlines after exposing daycare centre fraud in Minnesota.

"Yes, this would be amazing, X so far hasn’t been able to compete with YouTube Adsense, but it is a much more effective platform for videos to be shared and seen by the masses without censorship," Shirley said.

“I’ve been telling my friends for months to be posting on X but they haven’t made the effort because their time is better used (monetarily) on other platforms,” he added.

"Yes, this would be amazing, X so far hasn’t been able to compete with YouTube Adsense, but it is a much more effective platform for videos to be shared and seen by the masses without censorship," Shirley said.

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