X Sues UK Residents for Alleged Coordinated Bitcoin Account Network
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has sued two UK residents and their collaborators for allegedly operating a coordinated network of Bitcoin-themed accounts that recycled content, boosted each other's posts, and collected at least $279,000 from its Creator Revenue Sharing program.
The civil complaint, filed in England's High Court on September 17th, names Vivek Kumar Sen and Zamyang Sherpa as defendants. X alleges that the network of six accounts, which received payouts totaling approximately £207,384 (around $279,000), used overlapping Stripe records, bank details, devices, software clients, UUIDs, device tokens, and cookies to connect seemingly separate profiles.
The complaint cites several examples of duplicated content and tightly clustered engagement between the accounts. X also points to an attempted account purchase by Sen, in which he allegedly tried to acquire a large following on another channel while expressing concerns about getting into trouble with X's rules.
X suspended the defendants' accounts on August 18th for coordinated revenue-sharing fraud and platform manipulation. The lawsuit comes as X has replaced its Creator Revenue Sharing program with Original Content Rewards, which excludes copied, minimally modified, and aggregated material, as well as artificially generated or fraudulent impressions.