New York Times loses Twitter verification; Musk's network removes blue seal from non-payers

Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, went online to satirize the New York Times on the day the North American newspaper lost its relevance verification seal for disagreeing with Twitter's new policy under the billionaire's command and not paying for the “blue seal ”.

In one thread, Musk said that “the real tragedy of @NYTimes It's just that their propaganda isn't even interesting. Plus, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It’s unreadable”, he attacks.

“They would have a lot more real followers if they just posted their top articles. The same applies to all publications”, adds Musk.

Twitter Blue

Twitter announced last month that users who had free relevance checking would lose the benefit in April unless they agreed to pay the subscription fee of $84 annually or $8 per month in the US. Here in Brazil the cost is 60 reais.

O TwitterBlue got off to a rocky start in November after several accounts began posing as public figures and companies, causing the company to pause the subscription service for several weeks before relaunching it the following month.

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In Brazil

One of the best-known Brazilian celebrities on Twitter, YouTuber Felipe Neto, is also one of those resisting the Twitter Blue charge. On Saturday (01) he satirized the fact that he was still “validated by the platform, even without having signed up to pay for the blue seal.

To the newspaper The Globe Felipe Neto explained why, for now, he will not pay for the blue seal:

“I don’t agree with the way Twitter is being managed, with the abandonment of policies to combat misinformation and hate speech and how the platform decided to charge for things that were always free.”

He adds that the new verification policy changes the relationship only with the user, but not with the advertising market: “There are no pros to Twitter Blue if the platform continues to use the collection of individual data to sell advertising. If the package were sold under the promeThis would be a substantial pro, but this is not the case”, he added.

Until the end of this report, Felipe Neto still appeared “verified” on Twitter.

And the Brazilian government?

The Communication Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic stated, in a note to the newspaper O Globo, that the Lula government will have the gray seal (for governments) free of charge.

The same will happen with the White House, headquarters of the Executive government in the United States, which also refuses to pay to have Twitter Blue.

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