X Corp. Sues Vietnamese Men in RICO Suit Over Bot Manipulation

X Corp. says at least eight Vietnamese nationals are illegally manipulating the social media platform’s creator revenue sharing program through the use of bots, according to a federal lawsuit.

The social media platform, owned by Elon Musk, alleges that the defendants are part of a “criminal enterprise” and “use computer bots and other tools to manipulate content engagement metrics on the X platform and steal funds from deserving content creators through X’s creator revenue sharing program,” according to X’s Thursday complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The men are violating the federal ...