Like everything else in this boring corporate dystopia, nothing will actually improve. We'll be presented with the illusion that it has and some statistics to 'prove' it e.g. "we removed ~10,000 bot accounts". Meanwhile the bots that are left are the ones from organisations that can either afford it or have the ability to orchestrate it
regardless i.e GCHQ, NSA, etc.
You'll get rid of some edgy Russian teenagers, which are the ones that the media claims are the troll factories, and maybe some domestic edgelords too. Meanwhile the state sponsored operations will continue and the average person will now believe everything is kosher, not realising that they're still being manipulated.
So actually the situation will get worse. There will be less bots, but the manipulation will still be there and more obscure to the average person.
Increase taxation or raise the cost to create a higher barrier for entry to the average person. Hmmm. Sounds awfully similar to: green taxes, electric vehicles/legislating against combustion vehicles, and the rest of the seemingly unconnected but similar solutions being presented to us for a variety of issues..
For a 'tech genius' like Elon it is a joke of a solution. One might suspect it's also planting another seed for the whole 'digital ID' narrative, where we need verification just to use the internet and anonymity is dispensed with altogether.. for safety, security, and the children. Who wants to bet that within 6 months we'll see another major tech platform implementing a similar feature. There's been a coordinated media campaign over the past year, in the UK at least, regarding 'misinformation', the harms related to trolling (causing child suicide), etc.