Elon Musk says X posts corrected by Community Notes will be “ineligible for revenue share” in order to “maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism”
The later pilot to surface cross-partisan agreement through Community Notes suggests X continued to expand the feature's role in ranking and trust signals. That makes the payout penalty significant: a community-driven correction can now affect both a post's credibility and its economics.
First-order effects
Creators whose posts receive a corrective Community Note lose eligibility for revenue sharing, creating an immediate financial cost for content judged inaccurate by the Notes process.
Community Notes gains enforcement weight inside X: a correction is no longer just context for readers but a trigger for a monetization outcome.
Second-order effects
Creators seeking ad-revenue payouts have a stronger reason to avoid claims likely to be corrected, while critics can focus scrutiny on how Notes are applied to high-earning posts.
X must connect a community moderation signal to payout administration, making consistency around what counts as a correction and when it affects earnings consequential for creator trust.
Third-order effects
If sustained, this shifts Community Notes from an informational moderation layer into a form of economic governance, where platform incentives are used to shape what users publish.
The trend: Social platforms are increasingly using monetization eligibility—not only removal or labeling—to steer creator behavior around content quality and audience trust.
With such gobsmacking recurring denseness*, it's hard to imagine that Elon was ever remotely smart about anything. But I remind myself that there are still talented scientists who mistakenly believe vaccines cause autism and undoubtedly liberal arts graduates who think Africa's …
Making a slight change to creator monetization: Any posts that are corrected by @CommunityNotes become ineligible for revenue share. The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism.
Interestingly, most of the negative responses to this announcement by Elon Musk are coming from some of the most Community Noted blue tick accounts on this app. [image]
@elonmusk @CommunityNotes Sometimes community notes just add extra context which makes a post more beneficial to readers. Is there a way to differentiate between helpful community notes and community notes that call out patently false statements?
@elonmusk @CommunityNotes There are so many community notes on obvious satire videos, where they just write, “this is a fake video, here is the link to the original video” And the satire videos are clearly marked as satire. They don't need “context added”.
This is already being manipulated. @elonmusk, how will you ensure that community notes are not applied based on debates and opinions? For instance, the case of a hospital bombing, despite having substantial evidence indicating Israel's involvement, is being subjected to...
@elonmusk @CommunityNotes Will there be an appeal process? Community Notes will sometimes hit memes in a fun fashion or add context/links even if the original post wasn't misleading/wrong.
Eloon Minsk figures out a way to stiff 99% of the far right and left as he is an equal opportunity liar and stiffer and keeps the sane middle the hardest working people on this site working for free here His best stiff yet and pretty smart. His recap with Qatar coming soon
Elon learning on warp speed the challenges of overseeing a platform is fun. With this change, he'll soon realise the challenges of weaponising moderation
@elonmusk @CommunityNotes In principle, great, but we are going to see people pushing for community notes on inconsequential technicalities to annoy accounts they don't like on principle.
Worth “noting” that any attempts to weaponize @CommunityNotes to demonetize people will be immediately obvious, because all code and data is open source
@elonmusk @CommunityNotes Not a good idea at all. Some community notes simply just add more context to a tweet & the original tweet wasn't wrong at all. Sometimes community notes use other false articles from MSM to disagree with a tweet not disprove. Community Notes will be abus…