"X will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region. The motivation appears to be discouraging engagement farming via political posts, with Bier adding that, 'While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts.'"
"Bier specifically called out political content in a response to another X user's reply, commenting, 'Of course, you're welcome to continue chiming in on America [sic] politics. We just won't send money overseas for that content.'"
"Musk replied several hours later in a post stating, 'We will pause moving forward with this until further consideration.' The update to creator payouts was supposed to roll out on Thursday, but it sounds like that will no longer be the case after Musk's follow-up post."
X's Head of Product, Nikita Bier, announced a change to creator payouts that would give more weight to impressions from users' home regions. This aims to discourage engagement farming, particularly regarding political content. Bier noted that while opinions on American politics are welcome, payments for such content will not be sent overseas. However, Elon Musk later stated that the rollout of this change would be paused for further consideration, delaying the implementation that was initially scheduled for Thursday.
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