Twitter has removed labels describing global media organizations as government-funded or state-affiliated, including the one on CBC's account.
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 check marks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee.
vanished Friday, along with the state-affiliated tags on media accounts including Sputnik and RT in Russia and Xinhua in China. High-profile users who lost their blue checks Thursday included Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey and former president Donald Trump. In a reply to King’s tweet, Musk said “You’re welcome namaste” and in another tweet he said he’s “paying for a few personally.” He later tweeted he was just paying for King, Shatner and James.
It wasn’t just celebrities and journalists who lost their blue checks Thursday. Many government agencies, non-profit and public-service accounts around the world found themselves no longer verified, raising concerns that Twitter could lose its status as a platform for getting accurate, up-to-date information from authentic sources, including in emergencies.
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