Twitter’s blue check apocalypse is here, and this is the full story
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Elon Musk is personally choosing who is a lord and who is a peasant on Twitter.
Remember when Musk pitched this whole pay-for-the-blue-checkmark business as a way to democratize Twitter, suggesting pesky elites would no longer get preferential status? How the “lords and peasants system” was “bullshit”?
Today, he turned right around and paid for LeBron James and Stephen King’s verified badges. Guess the rest of us are peasants.
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