No sources? You have to take anything to do with Elon’s Twitter takeover with a grain of salt because journalists have an axe to grind now the status symbol (that we’re now finding out was sold at $15k per verification at times by staff under the table) is open to everyone.
Are you implying the main cause of grievance for journos against Musk right now is the loss of "status" of a verified badge? I believe there are many more issues with Musk that they have axes to grind than... Losing privilege to a blue badge on Twitter.
Yes and I think journalists in particular have believed that badge meant they belonged to a different class of people and it is the main thing they're angry about with the Musk takeover.
