Twitter removed the “verified” badge from the New York Times’ main account on Sunday, a move that billionaire owner Elon Musk pushed for overnight after learning that the news organization would not pay for its Twitter Blue service.
late Saturday night to a meme outlining the Times’s decision to not pay for Twitter verification by saying, “Oh ok, we’ll take it off then.”
Asked about the move Sunday, a Times spokesperson reiterated that the news organization is still not “planning to pay the monthly fee for check mark status for our institutional Twitter accounts.”It was unclear why other accounts still had their badge. The Post
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