Elon Musk's Twitter has removed the verification badge from the official New York Times Twitter account, a move which came in the wake of the Times stating it would not pay $1,000 a month for verification on the platform.
lead and decided not to pay for the verification badges for their accounts or the accounts of their reporters.
The New York Times building is shown on Oct. 21, 2009, in New York. The New York Times is bracing for a 24-hour walkout Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, by hundreds of journalists and other employees, in what would be the first strike of its kind at the newspaper in more than 40 years. Musk responded to a tweet from a user who shared a meme regarding the Times’ decision not to pay for verification, writing, “Oh ok, we’ll take it off then.” He followed up with tweets disparaging the New York Times, stating, “The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn’t even interesting. Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. They would have far more real followers if they only posted their top articles. Same applies to all publications.
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