Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts chastised Elon Musk on Sunday after the billionaire’s glib response to a request for details about Twitter’s new verification insurance policies. “Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody?” Musk tweeted Sunday morning after Markey criticized the corporate’s new $8 per thirty days Twitter Blue subscription.
Senator Markey countered: “One of your companies is under an FTC consent decree. Auto safety watchdog NHTSA is investigating another for killing people. And you’re spending your time picking fights online”. He mentioned, “Fix your companies. Or Congress will.”
Twitter suspended its new paid account verification lower than two days after launch. It’s been a catastrophe. Trolls had been capable of impersonate celebrities, politicians and types, resulting in chaos. One managed to tank the inventory of the pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly, claiming the corporate would supply insulin at no cost. Another mentioned Lockheed Martin was reassessing its army contracts with international locations and territories with poor human rights information.
It’s solely Monday, but it surely’s already shaping as much as be one other week stuffed with Twitter drama. Have you signed as much as Mastodon but? Let me know. I’m nonetheless on Twitter. For now.
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