X Sues Two Bitcoin Influencers Over Bot Army That Milked Creator Payouts

In brief

• X sued Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sherpa, and unnamed others in London's High Court on September 17, alleging a bot network stole at least £207,384 ($278,000) from Creator Revenue Sharing.
• Six accounts, plus at least three booster accounts, allegedly posted near-identical Bitcoin content seconds apart and used Stripe accounts registered under mismatched names.
• X shut the program down September 7 and replaced it with Original Content Rewards, which excludes "artificially generated" engagement from payouts.

X is suing two men it accuses of running a coordinated bot network to siphon money from its creator payout program, according to a United Kingdom High Court complaint filed September 17.

The suit names Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sherpa, and other unidentified persons, accusing them of running six accounts as a single network to fake engagement on Bitcoin-related content and unlock Creator Revenue Sharing payouts. The program ran from July 2023 until it shut down for good on September 7, 2026.

James Burnham, X and xAI's general counsel, confirmed the filing in a post on Sunday. "Last week, X sued several people who abused Creator Revenue Sharing by operating a coordinated network of accounts, posting inauthentic content to manipulate engagement, and using multiple bank accounts to hide their scheme," he wrote. "We do not tolerate fraudulent behavior on X—and will act forcefully to protect our platform and the earnings of genuine creators."