Posted on 04/02/2023 5:53:13 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Twitter has removed the verification check mark on the main account of The New York Times, one of CEO Elon Musk's most despised news organizations.
The removal comes as many of Twitter’s high-profile users are bracing for the loss of the blue check marks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the social media platform.
Musk, who owns Twitter, set a deadline of Saturday for verified users to buy a premium Twitter subscription or lose the checks on their profiles. The Times said in a story Thursday that it would not pay Twitter for verification of its institutional accounts.
Early Sunday, Musk tweeted that the Times' check mark would be removed. Later he posted disparaging remarks about the newspaper, which has aggressively reported on Twitter and on flaws with partially automated driving systems at Tesla, the electric car company, which he also runs.
Other Times accounts such as its business news and opinion pages still had either blue or gold check marks on Sunday, as did multiple reporters for the news organization.
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Surprised that they haven’t accused Musk of Censorship yet.
His site, his call
thx Elon. i apologize for thinking of you as the enemy. clearly, you’re one of the only friends we independent conservatives have.
I don’t think Musk is expecting to make much money from blue check marks. He’d have to basically have 50 million people get one in order to make any money on it.
Yeah they “pulled” it, technically.
NYT didn’t want to pay the blue-check upcharge, even though it wouldn’t amount to anything more than pocket change to them.
Guess they want to hire more fake news fabulists instead.
Musk remarked that the NYT was just a propaganda source anyway lol.
Misleading headline. As annouced months ago, the blue check mark will now be for people paying $8/month, which the Times is not willing to do.
Pinchie too cheap to pay the 8 bucks.
The payments are only there to bring down the number of Twitter bots. The payments make having hundreds of Twitter bots very expensive.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn’t even interesting
1:16 AM · Apr 2, 2023
Could that be considered a Mean Tweet?
He better watch out. D.A. Bragg will arrest him for, well, for something.
Our source was the new York times...
“I don’t think Musk is expecting to make much money from blue check marks. He’d have to basically have 50 million people get one in order to make any money on it.”
Explain that one to me.
$8 a month x 12 months = $96 a year.
50 million x (make it easy to figure) $100 a year = $5 BILLION
A YEAR.
Just for having a checkmark, whether they use their account or not.
How in the world is $50 Billion a year in passive income NOT making money?????????
How many people do you think are signing up for the checkmark. I was thinking yearly, not monthly, so I was using $400 million/year.
Do you think that 5 million are going to sign up for the blue check?
$400 million, against a $44 billion purchase is not really making money.
Twitter makes money in other ways than an eight buck blue check.
EC
Re the NYT, assume everything political in the leftist mode is either a distortion of the facts/truth or an outright lie until proven otherwise. (The Alan Bragg school of legal corruption equivalent).
That’s what the MARXIST leftist media does to moderates and the conservatives, and it Has worked much of the time.
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