As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He’d Pushed For

In late 2022, long before multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk renamed Twitter to X, rumors swirled that he was getting ready to shake up the platform’s verification system.

His proposal: charge each subscriber for the privilege of being verified without ever doing the homework of actually verifying their identity — a short-sighted and ultimately disastrous decision that Musk reportedly regretted almost immediately.

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