Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
Fire Sale, but you can't say it's been uneventful. To see some truly eyebrow raising decision making, look no further than Musk's handling of Twitter's verification system in the form of that exalted Blue Check.
The long and short of it is that Musk has proposed packaging the check mark badge with Twitter's previously separate "Twitter Blue" subscription service. That means that verified accounts would have to start paying to keep their check marks, even though verification has been free since it was first implemented., Twitter Blue subscribers won't even be required to authenticate their identities to receive the verified check mark.
At the very least, the documents note that there would be an "interim" period allowing old-school verified accounts to keep their badges before eventually being asked to pay, as well as plans to allow government accounts to remain verified without subscribing. Nevertheless, it's hard to conceive what the point of having a verified badge will be if anyone can get one without proving who they are, making it not only meaningless, but dangerous.
But at the end of the day, it's just one of many of Musk's harebrained but cynical schemes to wring money out of a website that he was forced into paying far too much for.
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