Ending Twitter’s “lords and peasants system” approach and making the blue check mark available to everybody , Musk said, was meant to “elevate citizen journalists.” Then he warned that as his platform pursues this goal, “media elite will try everything to stop that from happening.”
Musk does not know what he is talking about. For Musk to say that the charging for blue checks would “democratize journalism” shows his surface knowledge of what What will democratize journalism? Certainly not the divide and rule method that technocrats like Musk are advocating. Not fragmenting journalists, or isolating them.This is particularly true in crucial moments when journalists expose and offend power through their stories. At the end of the day, the powerful do not want to be called out for being corrupt, for being abusive, for lying.