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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

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

Oh, just identify the bots.

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

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

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