COLUMNIST Ben Kritz called the new Twitter owner, "Chief Twit" Elon Musk's move to ask for a $8 per month "verification badge" a user pays for certain advantages in the platform as signaling the end of social media. A columnist in another paper typical of a Yellow writer, saw it as the beginning of tyranny in social media. (The badge alerts readers that an account is "real, credible, authentic and of interest to the public," according to the Twitter "Help.")

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