Twitter has removed labels describing global media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, a move that comes after the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee.
has removed labels describing global media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, a move that comes after the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee.
The costs of keeping the marks range from $8 a month for individual web users to a starting price of $1,000 monthly to verify an organization, plus $50 monthly for each affiliate or employee account.does not verify the individual accounts, as was the case with the previous blue check doled out during the platform's pre-Musk administration.
Singer Dionne Warwick tweeted earlier in the week that the site's verification system “is an absolute mess.”is going anyone could be me now,” Warwick said. She had earlier vowed not to pay forOn Thursday, Warwick lost her blue check .
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