Hassan Maishera
TL;DR
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X has filed a lawsuit in London against two UK residents over alleged abuse of its Creator Revenue Sharing program.
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The company claims the defendants coordinated multiple accounts to make their posts appear more popular and increase payouts.
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X alleges that some accounts published nearly identical crypto posts within minutes, including one pair posted 11 seconds apart.
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X claims £207,384 in program payments and seeks at least another £75,000 for investigation and remediation costs.
X Internet Unlimited Company and X Corp. have sued UK residents Vivek Kumar Sen and Zamyang Sherpa, alleging they worked with unidentified accomplices to manipulate the platform’s Creator Revenue Sharing program.
According to the claim filed in London, the group operated multiple X accounts and used likes, reposts, and replies to create the appearance of genuine engagement. X alleges that the activity increased the accounts’ share of creator payouts.
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.
— James Burnham (@BurnhamDC) September 20, 2026
We do not tolerate fraudulent behavior on X -- and…
The company identified nine accounts in its filing, including @Vivek4real_, @Bitcoin_Teddy, @saylordocs, @TrendingBitcoin, @Kalshibacktest and @PolyBackTest.
It claims several of them published identical or substantially similar posts about cryptocurrency within minutes of each other. In one cited instance, two posts appeared 11 seconds apart.
Filing Points to Shared Payment Details
X also alleges that financial and identifying information overlapped across the accounts.
The filing says the Stripe account linked to @Bitcoin_Teddy was registered under the name “Stefan Mann,” while the associated bank account was held by Sen. X claims the email address connected to the payment account was also linked to him.
Those details form part of X’s case that the accounts were operated together. The court has not determined whether the defendants engaged in fraud or platform manipulation.
X Seeks Payouts and Investigation Costs
X claims it paid £207,384, or approximately $277,000, through the revenue-sharing program as a result of the alleged conduct. It is also seeking at least £75,000, or about $100,000, for investigation, analysis, remediation, and preventive measures.
The Creator Revenue Sharing program began in July 2023. X says it suspended the accounts on Aug. 18 over what it described in the claim as coordinated fraud and platform manipulation. The program was replaced by Original Content Rewards on Sept. 7.
The lawsuit concerns payments made under the earlier program. Its allegations remain unproven.
