Elon Musk, who has been at war with media organizations especially since the day he bought Twitter, has made another striking decision. The New York Times and Elon Musk, which we witnessed constantly getting into dogfights, had a blue tick fight this time.
In the past weeks, Musk shared that as of April 1, the badge on accounts with blue ticks will be removed as long as there is no Twitter Blue membership. Although today is April 3, there has been no change in blue ticks in the Twitter world, and the only victim was The New York Times, which has 55 million followers.
Removed the blue tick badge from The New York Times:
There is no reason why Twitter has only removed The New York Times’ blue tick at the moment. But the justification we seek may not be very institutional. After all, Twitter has now turned into a one-man company.
The post made by Elon Musk on April 2 clearly shows this situation:
“The biggest tragedy of the New York Times is that even their propaganda isn’t engaging. Plus, their streams are the equivalent of Twitter’s diarrhea. Unreadable. If they only published their best articles, they would have a lot more real followers. The same goes for all broadcasts.”
No statement has yet been made by Twitter or The New York Times on the subject. As additional information, The Washington Post, including The New York Times, and many giant broadcasters announced that they will not be subscribing to the package below.
Twitter equates Blue subscribers with authentic verified accounts
In the meantime, let’s also mention that Twitter does not remove the blue ticks and keeps the Blue subscribers together with the really approved accounts. So much so that when you click on the blue tick of any user, it is stated that a blue tick is given “because he is a Twitter Blue subscriber or a verified account”. Therefore, you cannot understand whether the account is a Blue subscriber fraudulent or a truly verified account. (The account in the screenshot is indeed verified, you saw our fraud…)
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