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Charlie Sheen publicly asked Elon Musk to return his blue Twitter verification badge, which he lost after a site-wide purge of legacy verified accounts who refused to subscribe to Twitter Blue. Musk has agreed to cover the costs for a few megawatt accounts like Stephen King, LeBron James and William Shatner, but offered no indication that Sheen would be among that select group. Musk responded to Sheen's appeal, saying he feels his pain.
Elon Musk personally directed the removal of The New York Times' verified status on Twitter after the news organization refused to pay $1,000 a month for the gold check mark. Musk mocked the Times in several tweets, calling its news articles "propaganda" and its Twitter feed "unreadable." The Times was expected to be among the exceptions to Twitter's subscription requirement for verified status, but it publicly rejected Musk's business plan. While losing verified status may not significantly impact the Times' engagement, smaller news organizations may suffer more but may not have the budget to invest in verification.
Elon Musk criticized the New York Times on Twitter after the publication lost its blue verification badge on the platform. Musk called the Times' feed "unreadable" and suggested that it would have more real followers if it only posted its top articles. Twitter recently announced that it would start removing "legacy" verified blue checks from users who aren't paying for them, and to keep their blue verified checks, users will need to subscribe to Twitter Blue, the platform's $8 per month subscription service. The Times, along with other news organizations and high-profile Twitter users, has decided against paying for the check-mark.
The New York Times lost its Twitter verification badge after it said it would not pay the monthly fee to keep it. Elon Musk, CEO of Twitter, criticized the Times and called it "propaganda." Twitter had said it would begin removing verification badges as of April 1, but users who paid for the company's Twitter Blue subscription service could continue to receive the badge. The Times had said it would not pay for the subscription. Several other major news outlets, including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and CNN, had also said they wouldn't subscribe.