“News organizations have a message for Elon Musk: We are not going to pay you for checkmarks on Twitter,” CNN reports.
“The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Politico, and Vox all scoffed at the notion on Thursday that they would pay Twitter for the feature, which has been free since it was introduced years ago but will soon be phased out.”
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