Even Fox News Finds Elon Musk’s Blue Check Plan ‘Embarrassing’
“Chief Twit” Elon Musk has taken a lot of heat from the Twitterati this week over his plan to charge users $8 a month for verification, prompting him to double down on the unpopular idea while roundly mocking his critics with low-rent memes.
And although the edgelord billionaire has received fawning praise from Fox News over his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, it also appears some of the network’s stars feel it’s just too “embarrassing” to fork over cash in order to get their blue checkmarks.
Days after closing on his purchase of the social media platform, it was initially reported that Musk was pushing employees to create a subscription service that would charge users $20 a month to receive a verified account along with added features. The Tesla founder eventually dropped the price, claiming he was giving “power to the people” and that charging for verification would create a new revenue stream to reward the site’s content creators.