Elon Musk, the owner of X Corp, formerly known as Twitter, has yet again announced his aim of making the micro-blogging platform into a reliable source of news. Musk noted, in response to a follower's comment about users correcting misinformation with their postings and Community Notes, "X is an open-source news platform."
Taking to his profile, Elon Musk replied, "Anything relevant in legacy media is reposted here anyway." However, a few users had doubts regarding the reliability of the platform's information. A user brought out the possible hold-up in Community Notes correcting misinformation, and another said that X occasionally targets American institutions with false material.
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Not only that, in response to an X user about the technologies, reporting and more, Elon Musk replied, “X is open source news. That is the right way to think about it. Excellent analysis by Sinofsky.”
On X, Musk has been pushing people to participate in live video reporting from the ground up as part of his citizen journalism initiative. X no longer shows news item headlines in favour of just presenting the main image and the related website in an effort to reduce dependency on legacy media. In addition, Musk offered journalists a better salary in August if they published directly on X.
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Meanwhile, Elon Musk is planning to introduce new subscription plans for the users. As per the recent post, the platform will unveil two different subscriptions out of which will be an affordable offering while the other will be an expensive one with an ad-free experience and all the premium features. However, other details about the platform have not been announced yet, but it is expected that it will be rolled out soon,