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Elon Musk ‘personally paying’ to keep blue ticks on some verified Twitter users

Stephen King, LeBron James and William Shatner are among the stars whose blue ticks remain, despite claiming they had not paid a subscription

Evening Standard

Musk's Twitter drops labels for government-funded media

Twitter has removed labels describing global media organizations are government-funded or state-affiliated

The Independent UK

Some people will keep Twitter blue ticks despite not paying

It comes after legacy verified checkmarks were removed from the social app on Thursday

Wales Online

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Elon Musk loses $13 billion in 24 hours after SpaceX rocket explosion and disappointing Tesla earnings

The CEO of Tesla and Twitter has seen his net worth battered in recent years.

Fortune

Stephen King responds after being ‘trolled’ by Elon Musk’s blue tick on Twitter

Author was left confused after noticing he was still verified

The Independent UK

Twitter axes blue ticks as Elon Musk 'pays' for some celebs to keep verified badge

Major political party pages and celebs with huge followings have lost their verification badges.

Daily Record

Blue tick on Twitter: Ant and Dec, Ricky Gervais, Piers Morgan and more react as they lose verified status

What is the blue tick on Twitter? Social media platform ticks off celebrities after removing their verified checkmarks on April 20

Wales Online

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Elon Musk forced to backtrack after LeBron James refuses to pay for verification

Twitter chief Elon Musk unverified millions of accounts on Thursday - including the one belonging to Cristiano Ronaldo - but LeBron James still has his blue tick

Daily Mirror

Ricky Gervais leads celebrities ridiculing Elon Musk over disappearance of ‘blue ticks’

‘I’m not sure if I’m really me or not’

The Independent UK

Musk says he paid to verify LeBron, Stephen King, William Shatner

All three celebrities had publicly stated they would never pay for Twitter Blue and verified status.

Fortune

Twitter drops ‘state-affiliated’, ‘government-funded’ labels

China’s Xinhua and Russia’s RT no longer labelled as state media after unannounced changes.

Al Jazeera

Man City duo take aim at "crazy dude" Elon Musk after losing blue ticks during Twitter cull

Elon Musk made the controversial decision to strip Twitter users of their verified blue ticks on Thursday with a number of Premier League stars feeling the wrath of the billionaire

Daily Mirror

‘Deeply sorry’ CBI suspends policy and membership activity until June after firms quit following second rape allegation – as it happened

John Lewis, BMW, NatWest, Unilever, Aviva, Virgin Media 02 and GSK also distance from lobby group after Guardian reports into alleged misconduct

The Guardian - UK

AOC says Elon Musk will cost lives by deleting blue ticks on Twitter

Congresswoman shares screenshots of exchange between Twitter users claiming to be official New York government handles

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Crikey claims victory as Murdoch drops lawsuit; Queensland doubles EV rebate; and frustrating AFL coverage

Media scion discontinues case days after Fox News settled with Dominion in a separate lawsuit in the US

Dynamite News

Pushkar Singh Dhami, Mamata Banerjee, Rahul Gandhi, Kejriwal among politicians who lost Twitter blue tick

Micro-blogging site Twitter on Tursday removed the verified blue tick from many high-profile individuals' account in India including West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami, and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's among others. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Independent UK

Elon Musk trolls celebrities by ‘personally’ paying for their Twitter blue ticks

Platform’s verification system was overhauled on Thursday (20 April)

The Times of India

Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, PV Sindhu lose Twitter blue ticks

NEW DELHI: Top India sports stars, including the legendary Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli and double Olympic medallist shuttler PV Sindhu, have lost the blue checkmarks that helped verify their identity on the micro-blogging site Twitter.

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The Independent UK

All the celebrities who appear to be paying to keep Twitter blue ticks

‘I’m paying for a few personally,’ Musk says

The Guardian - AU

With Twitter’s legacy blue checks gone, here’s how to see if celebrities and other users are real

Users from the Pope to former US president Donald Trump had their blue checks removed, while Elon Musk paid costs for some celebrities

Al Jazeera

Twitter starts removing blue tick mark from non-paying users

Famous figures including Pope Francis and Bill Gates lose blue tick as Elon Musk pushes paid service.

Axios

Axios Finish Line: Normal America

Most Americans never touch Twitter or tune into cable TV.

Sports Illustrated

Elon Musk Confirms Report About LeBron James’s Unique Twitter Verification Situation

The Lakers star has a unique reason for why he was able to retain his Twitter verification.

The Independent UK

Elon Musk admits paying Twitter blue tick fees for celebrities who boycotted controversial levy

LeBron James and Stephen King appear to be among those who’ve had a subscription paid for

Los Angeles Times

Break out your tiny violins: The Twitter blue check purge is here

Celebrities and other VIPS across the world— including Bill Gates, the pope and Hillary Clinton — were devoid of official checkmarks Thursday afternoon as self-dubbed Twitter chief twit Elon Musk's promised purge of legacy Twitter verifications came to fruition.

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