Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become 'Paying' Twitter Blue Subscribers

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Elon Musk Forces Dead Celebrities to Become 'Paying' Twitter Blue Subscribers
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after basketball star LeBron James and author Stephen King were revolted to find Twitter had cursed them with a blue checkmark against their will.. "I haven't. My Twitter account says I’ve given a phone number. I haven't."

While the social media platform did visually remove the legacy checkmarks, which were handed out to verified users over the years, a brief look at the code revealed that the companyWhile the kerfuffle sounds pretty benign on the surface — who cares if a celebrity profile has a blue checkmark or not? — it now feels a lot like the social media company is using them to falsely claim celebrities, dead or alive, are endorsing Twitter Blue.

It's a pitiful state of affairs. Twitter finds itself in a deep financial hole and its leader's desperation is really starting to show. Musk is hoping to begin closing the gap with a subscription that, given the sheer amount of backlash, isn't just a terrible value proposition — but an

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