Musk plans to charge new X users a small fee to curb zombie account problem

On April 16th, Musk stated on social media that he plans to charge a small fee to new users joining the X platform in order to curb the problem of zombie accounts. Musk pointed out that current artificial intelligence and "troll farms" can easily bypass traditional tools such as captchas, so he believes that charging new users is the only way to prevent robot attacks. He also mentioned that if new users have not paid after three months of creating an account, they will be able to post information for free.

In addition, the X platform began a large-scale cleanup of spam accounts this month and warned users that their number of followers may be affected.