After the initial flurry of cheers, jeers, protests, and complaints over Elon Musk’s decision to remove all users’ blue checkmarks (well… almost all, but we’ll get to that in a moment) except for subscribers to Twitter Blue, I had thought the issue was resolved. But that may have been a premature assumption. Questions have been raised as to whether or not the Federal Trade Commission should be looking into how the policy would roll out and if Musk could be running into some legal trouble. That may sound like a rather frivolous waste of time by the FTC at first glance, but there really might be something to this complaint. And it all comes down to the few celebrity accounts that Musk allowed to retain their blue checks without paying for them. (Futurism)Read More
Will the FTC wade into the blue check apocalypse?
