Yay for X publishing this, but only because it helps address a problem that they created in the first place.

By paying a little bit of real cash money for hitting engagement stats, X created an incentive for people in other countries to fake the most engaging content they can find—which on X is right-wing rage bait. It has high emotional content and X’s algorithm was tweaked to prefer it.

It’s no different from the incentives that produced a flood of AI slop on Facebook, as thoroughly reported by 404 Media:

https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/