The impending move to suspend accounts found deliberately provoking users by deceitfulness in online engagement farming made by Musk in an announcement via a tweet on his X handle on Friday was deemed timely and a welcomed decision by notable online publishers led by our humble team.
Engagement farming is said to refer to practices done in order to get more interaction metrics on social media without adding any specific value.
Recall that in March, Musk said he may remove visible engagement metrics such as likes and reposts from posts on the X platform.
In July 2023, he also set temporary limits on the social media platform to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation
