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Elon Musk’s X is acting versus jobs that look for to financialize users’ attention on the platform utilizing digital properties, Head of Item Nikita Bier stated on Thursday.

” We will no longer permit apps that reward users for publishing on X,” he stated “This has actually resulted in a remarkable quantity of AI slop [and] reply spam on the platform.”

As part of the effort, Bier stated that X had actually withdrawed API gain access to for so-called InfoFi jobs, arguing that users’ experience on the platform “must begin enhancing quickly” as bots realise that their activity is no longer creating earnings.

We are modifying our designer API policies:

We will no longer permit apps that reward users for publishing on X (aka “infofi”). This has actually resulted in a remarkable quantity of AI slop & & reply spam on the platform.

We have actually withdrawed API gain access to from these apps, so your X experience must …

— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) January 15, 2026

Bier’s declaration consisted of a call to individuals that had their designer accounts ended, providing help with transitioning them to Meta’s Threads or Bluesky, the decentralized option to X that acquired traction after Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in 2022.

Kaito, a job that’s ended up being associated with InfoFi following its launching last February, saw its native token nosedive following the statement. Altering hands around $0.58, the token’s cost dropped over 15% within thirty minutes of Bier’s declaration, according to CoinGecko

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