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White House Won’t Pay For Staffers Blue Checkmarks Under Twitter’s New Verification Plan

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The White House won’t pay for staffers to have Twitter’s blue verification checkmarks, as platform owner Elon Musk implements a plan to remove them unless users pay for the service.

Axios reported on Friday that White House director of digital strategy Rob Flaherty wrote to staffers that “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.” To maintain a blue checkmark, users will have to pay $8 per month, of $84 per year.

Musk has said that the platform will begin removing the blue checkmarks starting on April 1. Twitter also is placing a gray checkmark on accounts of government organizations and certain government officials, but they do not include all staffers.

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