Digital Disconnect: X Wants To Be Bot-Free. Asking Users To Pay For It Will Only Make Matters Worse

OPINION: Tech platforms should stop resorting to making users pay for their inconveniences.

Elon Musk may soon make X/Twitter a paid platform.

X (née Twitter) may not remain free to use much longer. Former CEO Elon Musk hinted last week that users might have to pay a modest fee to use the microblogging platform. As per the billionaire owner, this would help X fight bots or fake accounts. Will X really be a paywalled app? We aren’t sure yet. Will X be free of bots if all users start paying? The answer to that would be an emphatic NO. If you think about it, Musk’s idea might sound logical at first glance. Automated