The expansion is a few days old, so, that's an simple, straightforward no.

I think the more important way to answer though is to point out that writers benefit from other writers here. When Medium brings you a new reader, it's because some writer brought that reader to Medium.

Sure, there are such a thing as bad actors. But they live in all countries, not just the ones we just let in. I really want to stress that, not for you in particular, but for anyone who reads your comment. There's a little bit of a stereotype about where spammers live. But historically at Medium, the people who have been most successful at gaming the system and syphoning page views and money away from the writer community live in North America.