X blue checkmarks being forced on journalists who don’t want them<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Ah, the saga of <a href="
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<p>Elon Musk last week announced his latest policy on the now-discredited blue-and-white pixels, and some of those on the receiving end aren’t happy about it … </p>
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X blue checkmarks being forced on journalists who don’t want them
