Elon Musk defends his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn't follow suit would fail because they would be swarmed by bots
The change in the system puts pressure on companies, journalists and celebrities who used Twitter as their main channel of communication and relied on the blue tick for credibility.
"The fundamental challenge here is that it's to create literally 10,000 or 100,000 fake Twitter accounts using just one computer at home and with modern AI ," Musk told a question and answer session on Twitter. The change in the system puts pressure on companies, journalists and celebrities who used Twitter as their main channel of communication and relied on the blue tick for credibility.
But Musk and his fans said the blue check was decided by fiat in a secretive procedure and called it a symbol of an unfair class system.
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