The Chief Executive Officer of Twitter Elon Musk has removed the blue tick verification of the New York Times on Sunday.
The New York Times founded in 1851 is a daily newspaper based in New York city, United States of Ameria, with a worldwide readership reported in 2022 to comprise 740,000 paid print subscribers, and 8.6 million paid digital subscribers.
The New York Times had said it would not subscribe to the Twitter Blue, except where it may be needed for their reporting
The removal of NY Times appeared as punishment for not accepting to pay for Twitter service.
A tweet from a verified UX/UI Twitter account (@cb_doge) read, “New York Times says It Won’t Pay For Twitter Verification”
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Musk, on Sunday, relied to the tweet, noting it would remove the verification of the news outlet.
“Oh ok, we’ll take it off then,” he replied.
He went further his personal Twitter account to tweet “The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn’t even interesting.
“Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It’s unreadable. They would have far more real followers if they only posted their top articles. Same applies to all publications.”
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A check by our correspondent on Monday shows that the verification badge on the US news outlet has been removed and that appears to be the only account hit by the removal as of the moment.
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