Thursday, 5 March, 2026
Musk Ignored Twitter Staff’s Warning About Paid Verification Scheme
By Basit Ansari
<p>Elon Musk disregarded internal cautions from Twitter's trust and safety team when he launched his disastrous paid verification plan. The trust and safety team distributed "a seven-page list of recommendations intended to help Musk avoid the most obvious and damaging consequences of his plans for Blue" about a week before the November 9 launch of Musk's updated Twitter Blue subscription, which gave users who paid $8 per month a blue checkmark.</p>
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