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Elon Musk Floats Charging All Users on X a Monthly Fee

by Jessica Marie Baumgartner
September 19, 2023 at 10:21 am
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PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 16: Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. Elon Musk is visiting Paris for the VivaTech show where he gives a conference in front of 4,000 technology enthusiasts. He also took the opportunity to meet Bernard Arnaud, CEO of LVMH and the French President. Emmanuel Macron, who has already met Elon Musk twice in recent months, hopes to convince him to set up a Tesla battery factory in France, his pioneer company in electric cars. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

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Elon Musk stated that X, formerly Twitter, users will likely be charged a “small monthly payment” in the future. 

The Washington Examiner reported Musk discussed the subject Monday while livestreaming a talk with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu described concerns regarding online bots designed to post anti-semitic content and promote hate speech. 

Musk then explained the importance of charging a small monthly fee to ensure that users are actually people. 

He said, “The single most important reason we’re moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system is it’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”

Bots do not have credit cards, so charging a fee would eliminate the fake accounts. However, the platform has been free since its creation. 

The change would be unlike other platforms that do not have monthly fees despite the online bot problem. 

Concerns over bots held up his Twitter takeover before transforming the social media company to the platform X because he held concerns regarding how many bots were active on the site, per Wired.

During the purchase of the company, Musk was told that Twitter had less than 5% bot accounts, but when reviewing the situation with his own strategy he found that up to 20% of accounts may have been bots. 

This has been an ongoing issue being that Musk has also committed to free speech. 

Just Sunday, he criticized the mainstream media for suppressing free speech noting, “How did most of the legacy media go from superheroes of free speech to supervillains of speech suppression?” 

How did most of the legacy media go from superheroes of free speech to supervillains of speech suppression?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 17, 2023

During the recent discussion, the Washington Examiner also noted that Netanyahu expressed an understanding of Musk’s position on free speech, bot accounts, and hate speech. 

He stated, “I know your commitment to free speech, and I know you’re opposed to antisemitism.”

“I hope you find within the confines of the First Amendment a way to try to roll it back. … I encourage you to find the balance. It’s a tough one,” he added

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Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Jessica is a homeschooling mother of 5, and author of "Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future." She has written for, "RSBN," "Chicken Soup for the Soul," "The Epoch Times," "Missouri Conservationist," "The Federalist," "The St. Louis Post Dispatch," and her work has won four Missouri Writer's Guild Awards.

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