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In a seeming petty act of revenge, Elon Musk has stripped The New York Times of its verified checkmark just hours after vowing to do so in response to the newspaper’s insistence that it wouldn’t be paying for the blue badge.
The move comes a day after Twitter was set to begin yanking badges from verified users, with Musk announcing that such “legacy” marks would be wound down in favor of his pay-to-play Twitter Blue scheme.
But on Sunday, only “a few dozen” verified accounts, including the Times, had had their verified status taken away, according to a software developer tracking the activity.