X has filed a lawsuit in London against Vivek Kumar Sen, Zamyang Sherpa and unidentified collaborators, alleging they coordinated Bitcoin-focused accounts to manipulate engagement and collect at least £207,384 in creator payouts.
The case centers on X’s former Creator Revenue Sharing program. The company alleges that several accounts acted as a coordinated network rather than independent creators. X says the accounts repeatedly liked, reposted and replied to one another’s content to create the appearance of genuine engagement.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
How X says the accounts operated
X identified six principal accounts in its claim: @Vivek4real_, @Bitcoin_Teddy, @saylordocs, @TrendingBitcoin, @Kalshibacktest and @PolyBackTest.
The company also identified three other accounts that it says helped generate engagement for the network. X alleges that several profiles posted identical or substantially similar Bitcoin content within seconds or minutes of one another.
The lawsuit also points to financial and technical connections between accounts. X alleges that some payment accounts used names that differed from the people it believes controlled the corresponding X profiles.
The company says it also found overlapping devices, software clients, device identifiers and cookies. However, those allegations remain part of X’s case and have not been established by a court.
X seeks payouts and additional costs
X says the disputed accounts received at least £207,384 through its creator monetization system.
The company is also seeking at least £75,000 for investigation, analysis, remediation and measures intended to prevent similar activity. The claim seeks repayment or damages, interest and legal costs.
X suspended the accounts on Aug. 18, citing what it described as coordinated revenue-sharing fraud and platform manipulation.
The lawsuit comes shortly after X retired Creator Revenue Sharing and began replacing it with its Original Content Rewards program. The newer system places greater emphasis on original content and excludes artificially generated or fraudulent engagement.
The case could therefore provide a significant test of how social media platforms pursue alleged monetization abuse after payments have already been distributed. For now, the allegations remain unresolved, and no judgment has established liability against Sen, Sherpa or the unidentified defendants.
