Unfortunately, that $225,000 haul means that we did come up about $28,000 short of our fall fundraising goal. It's what allows us to do the type of journalism you turn to Mother Jones for in the first place: deep dives, big investigations, prioritizing and sticking with underreported beats, and bringing a fiery and fact-based voice that adds context to the day's news. A broad base of community support is the only reason we're still standing. It's unfathomably hard keeping a newsroom afloat these days, and we're grateful to have a community of readers whose donations make up about 75 percent of our funding. Thank you so much to everyone who pitched in! And thanks to everyone who didn't or simply can't, because Mother Jones wouldn't exist without people who read and share and care about our journalism. We just finished off our fall fundraising drive, and we were able to raise about $225,000 over three weeks to help make the reporting you get from Mother Jones possible. But so has the New York Times’ check mark.īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. Musk’s apparent tweet has since been deleted. However, if they specifically say they won’t pay for Twitter Blue, then Twitter will remove their checkmark /HiiWwf30tb “Unless they tell they won’t pay now,” he tweeted, “in which case we will remove it.”Įlon Musk quickly deleted a tweet saying legacy verified accounts would not lose their checkmarks on April 1 as he previously said, won’t happen for another “few weeks” After users noticed that most accounts with legacy verification still had their check marks after April 1, Musk reportedly said Twitter would give accounts a few more weeks before stripping them of their checks. In the memo it sent to its staffers about opting not to pay Musk for verification, the Los Angeles Times reasoned that verification “no longer establishes authority or credibility”Īmid announcements from major organizations that they would not be paying, the New York Times reported that Twitter had planned to waive the $1,000 monthly fee for its “500 largest advertising clients and for the 10,000 most-followed brands.” The most-followed companies on the site include accounts from CNN, the NBA, NASA, and yes, the New York Times.īut early Sunday morning, Musk appeared to change his mind. The company’s stock value fell from $368 a share to $346, with its market cap losing approximately $15 billion, according to Marketplace. Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly saw precisely that play out when a Twitter account with a similar name that had paid for verification tweeted in November that it would be making insulin free. But now that anybody can pay to have a check mark next to their names, it’s much easier to impersonate notable accounts and fool the masses. It meant that if you saw a verified White House account tweet about a national emergency, or a verified Tom Brady account tweet about a retirement update, you could believe it to be true. Historically, being verified on Twitter meant the social media company had confirmed the user or organization’s identity and decided that they were notable. Axios reported the White House has also decided it will not pay to be verified, nor will it reimburse staff who want to pay $8 monthly for their individual accounts to be verified. In March, Twitter announced it would begin “removing legacy verified checkmarks” starting April 1 in order to finalize its pay-to-play overhaul, in which any individual can now pay $8 per month for a check mark, but a company, government entity, or nonprofit has to cough up $1,000 per month to verify its main account, and $50 extra for each affiliated account the entity wants to verify.Īfter the announcement, major media players like the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Politico, and Vox all said they would not be paying to retain their Twitter check marks. ![]() But as of Sunday, America’s paper of record no longer has a verification check-mark on the increasingly tumultuous social media platform that Tesla-titan Elon Musk purchased in October 2022 for $44 billion. ![]() ![]() The New York Times boasts around 9.3 million global subscribers and 54.9 million followers on Twitter. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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