Twitter a serious danger for traditional media to control the narrative: Elon Musk

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that his micro-blogging platform has become a "serious danger" to traditional media outlets, as he restored legacy Blue check marks for influential users and celebrities.

Mario Nawfal, Co-founder and CEO at NFT Tech and founder of International Blockchain Consulting (IBC), said in a tweet that he never realised how much the media hates Musk until this week.

"Twitter gets criticised for $8 verification, yet no one talks about Instagram copying the strategy at almost double the price," he posted, adding that the SpaceX launch, despite the unsurprising explosion, was a success and an incredible step forward for humanity, yet the media paints it as a failure.

"If NASA did the same thing, praise would dominate headlines. Something doesn`t add up," posted Nawfal.

The Twitter CEO replied: "Yup. Twitter is a serious danger to their ability to control the narrative."

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Musk has always been at the loggerheads with traditional media.

After facing a severe backlash, Musk-run Twitter last week removed "government-funded media" labels on all accounts belonging to traditional publications and digital news outlets.

Twitter also deleted its web page explaining the "government-funded media" labels.

The micro-blogging platform earlier placed the `publicly-funded` label to the BBC account and applied the `government-funded` label to US-based NPR.

Twitter later placed more `government-funded media` labels on the accounts of global news outlets like Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC Australia), Australia`s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), New Zealand`s public broadcaster RNZ, Sweden`s SR Ekot and SVT, and Catalonia`s TV3.cat.

NPR decided to quit Twitter after the Musk-run platform labelled it as a government-funded organisation. After NPR, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) also left Twitter after being labelled as government-backed media.

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