# X Creator Monetization and FBI Cybersecurity Breach

**Podcast:** TechCrunch Daily Crunch
**Published:** 2026-03-06

## Transcript

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X revamps its creator subscriptions with new features.
I'm Imran Shank and your Daily Crunch for Thursday, featuring three big tech headlines.
Starts right now.
Hackers have reportedly broken into the networks of the FBI.
On Thursday, citing an anonymous source, CNN reported that the breach affected a system used to manage wiretaps and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants.
The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond.
A Bureau spokesperson told TechCrunch, declining to provide more details.
This is the latest major breach of U.S.
government agencies and American companies in recent times.
Last year, Chinese hackers broke into the US Treasury and the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the security of the U.S.
nuclear stockpile.
Kinda important.
Telecommunications providers ATT and Verizon, as well as Lumen, Charter Communications, and Winstream.
Maybe Agent Mulder and Scully need to stop chasing the aliens and get to work on cybersecurity.
Amazon is starting to roll out its redesigned Fire TV mobile apps to customers.
The company announced this on Thursday.
While you could previously only use the app as a backup remote, the updated experience lets you browse and discover content directly from your phone, manager watch list on the go, and play titles on your TV from the mobile app.
Amazon says the refresh look matches the new Fire TV user interface that it launched last month, which was designed to put more focus on content while also simplifying navigation.
Now, the updated user interface introduced rounded corners, varied gradients, consistent typography, and increased spacing between content while also providing more room for pinned apps.
The top navigation bar has been simplified into categories marked with clear icons for movies, TV, live TV, sports, and news.
The search button is more easily accessible to the left of the home tab.
Within these tabs, Fire TV shows the content you're already watching alongside recommendations from your subscribed services, organized in rows labeled for you.
Now, the tabs also feature free movies, top movies and shows, and other paid content you might like.
The changes to the app and the user interface come in response to the surge of streaming content.
Elon Musk owned X announced on Thursday that it's revamping the social network's creator subscriptions offering with a number of new features, including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, and a shareable subscriptions card, among other changes.
The company believes these updates will allow creators to attract more fans and provide better experiences as it pushes to become a bigger part of the creator economy alongside giants like Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook.
X also highlighted the recent launch of its paid partnership label, which is applied to posts where the content is paid for or incentivized by a third party.
One key new feature arriving Thursday is the launch of exclusive threads, which allow creators to monetize their posts directly on X, instead of sending fans to an external website or newsletter.
Who's got time for that?
With these posts, creators can tease the value of the thread in a parent post, then allow audiences to subscribe directly to the individual conversation.
Subscriber-only content will now live in the account's main profile feed instead of in a separate subscriptions tab according to X.
Other new tools are designed to help creators market themselves and track their analytics.
This includes a new subscriptions card that can be shared on X to promote the creators' content.
There's also a new dashboard that lets creators more easily track their earnings alongside other subscriber insights, as well as access built-in growth tools.
X is also tweaking the subscription process, which includes a refreshed paywall.
And the company also formally announced the recent launch of the Paid Partnership Label, which offers creators a built-in to go to comply with X's policy and industry regulations over labeling ads without having to use hashtags.com.
And folks, that's your Daily Crunch.
Today's stories were reported by Aisha Mollock Russell, Brandom, and Lorenzo Francci Piccieri.
We'll see you here tomorrow, same tech time, same crunch channel.
And until then, find us at TechCrunch.com.
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