[raverbashing]

Plenty of bots are paying the 5$ verified account

It's a non-issue

And of course a lot of them have the same X logo or Elon's picture, because His Xcellence probably fired the thinking heads dealing with spam

[nisegami]

You need to follow up the payment barrier with identifying bots and the info (cc+contact) they used to verify their identity.

[devnullbrain]

Oh, just identify the bots.

[godzillabrennus]

I’m surprised he hasn’t asked his fanboys to volunteer to moderate. Reddit has volunteer moderation.

[inversetelecine]

And Reddit just got done crapping all over them, and they're still there working for free. I think X will be ok.

[input_sh]

What do you mean he hasn't, I'd definitely classify community notes as a volunteer-based moderation.