Daily Wire podcaster Michael Knowles declared on Friday that he would soon start paying for his blue checkmark on Twitter in order to “show my support” for “Chief Twit” Elon Musk—and also to stick it to the libs.
for to be verified, the only accounts featuring the once-vaunted blue checkmark are now paying for that privilege.after calling for transgenderism to be “eradicated,” currently boasts nearly a million followers on Twitter. However, like most other previously verified accounts, he lost his checkmark on Thursday because he wasn’t paying for Twitter Blue. But he said he would rectify that situation in short order on Friday.well, I got my blue check a while ago. I was cool.
,” he said on his eponymous podcast, adding that Twitter Blue is “probably worth” the cost upon further research. “But now I’ve decided that I probably am going to pay my $8,” Knowles continued. “And I’m going to pay the $8 for two reasons. One, because the libs have turned the blue check now into a referendum on whether or not you support what Elon Musk is doing at Twitter. And I do support what he’s doing at Twitter—I think it’s really important and noble for him to do. So I think that’s worth $8.”
From there, the Daily Wire host referenced the financial peril facing Twitter, which has seemingly grown worse since Musk purchased the company last fall. The
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