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The White House says it won’t pay Elon Musk for blue checks.
Add “the Biden administration” to the list of organizations that won’t be paying for staff to keep their blue checks on Twitter:
”It is our understanding that Twitter Blue does not provide person-level verification as a service. Thus, a blue check mark will now simply serve as a verification that the account is a paid user,” White House director of digital strategy Rob Flaherty told staffers in an email sent Friday afternoon.
The message specifically applied to White House staffers, so other agencies may have different policies — but we may see a lot of unverified government users soon.
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