Elon Musk’s Twitter has officially begun removing blue checks from “legacy” verified accounts as he had promised, and one of its first targets has puzzled Twitterverse.
The Twitter account for The New York Times lost its verification early Sunday, days after the legacy newspaper said it refused to pay the monthly $8 subscription to “Twitter Blue.”
“We aren’t planning to pay the monthly fee for verification of our institutional Twitter accounts,” a spokesperson for The New York Times told CNN’s Oliver Darcy. “We also will not reimburse reporters for the verification of personal accounts” with the sole exception of “rare instances where verified status would be essential for reporting purposes.”