Musk tweeted Saturday night about yanking the Times’ verified badge after the newspaper insisted it wouldn’t be paying for one.
, having accumulated more than 54.9 million followers as of the weekend.
On Thursday, the newspaper was one of several large news organizations to declare that it would not pay Twitter to keep itself or its journalists verified. The removal of thememe mocking that announcement.Less than an hour later, Musk returned to his keyboard to vent. “The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn’t even interesting,” he tweeted.
“Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea,” he continued. “It’s unreadable. They would have far more real followers if they only posted their top articles. Same applies to all publications.“
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