Twitter Begins Removing Blue Checks From Users Who Don't Pay

This time it's for real.

Many of Twitter's high-profile users are losing the blue check marks that helped verify their identities and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.

After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don't each pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verifi