The Daily Wire
Daily Wire podcaster Michael Knowles declared on Friday that he would soon start paying for his blue checkmark on Twitter in order to “show my support” for “Chief Twit” Elon Musk—and also to stick it to the libs.
On Thursday, Musk finally followed through on his long-promised threat to remove verification badges from all “legacy” accounts that did not pay $8 for the platform’s Twitter Blue feature. Outside of some affiliates of government and media organizations, and a “few” celebrities that Musk said he was “personally” paying for to be verified, the only accounts featuring the once-vaunted blue checkmark are now paying for that privilege.
Knowles, a far-right provocateur who recently made headlines after calling for transgenderism to be “eradicated,” currently boasts nearly a million followers on Twitter. However, like most other previously verified accounts, he lost his checkmark on Thursday because he wasn’t paying for Twitter Blue. But he said he would rectify that situation in short order on Friday.