https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/04/techscape-twitter-blue-ticks-elon-musk

After weeks of warnings, Twitter appears to have backed down on plans to do away with one of Musk’s original obsessions. Plus: why Italy banned ChatGPT

For weeks, Twitter has been promising that it would be ending its “legacy” verification programme – the one that actually verifies users – and stripping the status from any user who didn’t pay.