'Robbing Your Followers': X Product Chief Blasts Top Influencer Over Crypto Scam Promo

Director of Product at X Nikita Bier publicly accused influencer Ian Miles Cheong of promoting scam cryptocurrencies, linking the collapse of his account's reach not to system bugs but to aggressive spam behavior. The conflict unfolded amid the publication of X's recommendation algorithm update on GitHub, which the crypto community met with deep skepticism and accusations that Elon Musk failed to deliver on transparency promises.