New Delhi, Oct. 17 -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday explicitly said that microblogging platform X was underpaying its content creators and praised Google-owned YouTube for its monetization scheme.

Replying to an exchange between X executive Nikita Bier, Musk unequivocally wrote, "No, the issue is that we are underpaying and not allocating payment accurately enough. YouTube does a much better job."

The reply came on a thread from September 30, when Bier, the head of product at X, posted, "Over the next week, I'll be dropping some small upgrades for power users. Most of these things were quick fixes that somehow fell through the cracks. Stay tuned."

Bier's post attracted over 500 comments, with many pointing out deficiencies in X's pay...