After the New York Times lost its blue checkmark on Twitter, some leftists proceeded to have meltdowns, while others coped by suggesting the NYT looked ‘better’ without it.
Twitter announced last month that legacy checkmarks would no longer be maintained unless companies and individuals signed up for Twitter Blue.
While the fee is $8 a month for individuals, news outlets have to pay $1,000 a month, something the NYT refused to do.
New York Times no longer verified! pic.twitter.com/9fDX0fZwXY
— KEEM ? (@KEEMSTAR) April 3, 2023
The New York Times’ @nytimes account duly lost its checkmark on Saturday, with Elon Musk declaring that its feed had become “unreadable propaganda” anyway.
New York Times loses its Twitter blue check mark.
Elon Musk says "The real tragedy of the NYT is that their propaganda isn't even interesting. Their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It's unreadable." pic.twitter.com/oS9evXOLU1
— ?? Pat's World ?? (@itspatsworld) April 2, 2023
The NY Times losing its blue tick means tweets will no longer show up in the “for you” tab, meaning its followers will have to go direct to the account to read tweets.
This apparent war crime has enraged leftists on Twitter, who are acting like Musk personally shut down the newspaper.
“Elon Musk should step down and sell this app,” tweeted PoliticsVerse. “Today, he stripped New York Times, an account with nearly 55M followers of its verified badge, and decided to boost Catturd2 by giving him a legacy check mark.”
“The bias is unreal and we are living in dangerous times where the owner of this platform controls a social media app with political bias.”
https://twitter.com/PoliticsVerse/status/1642550765679001600
Yes, after everything that’s happened with social media bias up until Elon Musk purchased Twitter last year, only now does it become important because some pixels next to the words ‘New York Times’ disappeared.
Others were mad that a Twitter user called CatTurd was verified and the NY Times wasn’t.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1642546124597743616
Other leftists invented the cope that the NY Times looked ‘better’ without the blue checkmark anyway.
The unverified New York Times goes hard tbh pic.twitter.com/sU6LZiDKyQ
— litquidity (@litcapital) April 2, 2023
Some claimed the whole thing was a conspiracy to prevent the NY Times’ reporting on Trump’s ‘arrest’ from reaching a wider audience.
Let’s just sit with this for a few days watch it start to bubble up especially given tomorrow is such a big day. How can anybody really believe what they’re reading in the New York Times tomorrow on such a historic day without that checkmark how coincidentally convenient
— RaysRegionalNews (@imdb2022_2023) April 3, 2023
Apparently, some mainstream journos are planning to commit blue checkmark hari-kari in solidarity.
my two former employers the New York Times & the Washington Post have said they wont pay for Twitter’s blue checkmark.
I will follow the suit.
— Sharif Hassan (@MSharif1990) April 3, 2023
Others made fun of the whole situation, with some pretending to be the NY Times (perhaps in an effort to create a new controversy around ‘impersonation’, which could mean the newspaper gets it blue tick back again).
Woo hoo! Now that the NY Times has lost their verification badge, I AM THE NEW YORK TIMES
— BILL OAKLEY (@thatbilloakley) April 3, 2023
REMINDER: The New York Times lost its verification badge so now I am the New York Times at least until I get banned
— BILL OAKLEY (@thatbilloakley) April 3, 2023
One Twitter user expressed the sentiment of many by simply suggesting the NY Times cough up and pay the subscription fee like everyone else.
If I have to pay for my badge, so do rich leftist celebrities and the New York Times
Broke motherfuxkers
— George Alexopoulos (@GPrime85) April 2, 2023
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