Elon Musk misses the irony of the world's richest man asking people to pay him $8 a month for a Twitter blue check
. For comparison, relatively poor Mark Zuckerberg is worth $36.8 billion.)
In hindsight, it's somewhat expected: Musk has frequently criticized strict social-media moderation. So giving little thought to the way trolls could take advantage of his new system would be on-brand. Publicly, Musk is framing this change as leveling the playing field, and he's painting a blue checkmark as a status symbol that was doled out unevenly in the past. Twitter's system for determining who received verification and who doesn't has been opaque. But, as many have pointed out, offering it for free is what would actually level the playing field.
But, like making verification only a paid-only feature, juicing the visibility of paying members' tweets flies directly against Musk's claims of"leveling the playing field." , Musk is essentially saying:"The more money you spend, the more elevated your speech." That's the exact opposite of what the verification system should be striving for.
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