White House Refuses to Cover Twitter Verification Costs for Staff

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. To maintain a blue checkmark, users will have to pay $8 per month, or $84 per year. Musk has said that the platform will begin removing the blue checkmarks starting on April 1. Other organizations have also pushed back against the pay-for-checkmark plan.