On April 20th, Elon Musk finally took the kind of legacy blue check marks away. This is the date when he said it was going to happen. He did delay it like plenty of times though, which is kind of his ammo. But this one delivered, which you can't say for full self-driving cars or I were landing on Mars. These two people were William Shatner, Stephen King, and LeBron James.
Paris Marx is joined by Matt Binder to discuss Elon Musk’s first six months at Twitter and how his obsession with blue checks has decimated the company’s finances.
Matt Binder is a reporter at Mashable and the host of Scam Economy and Doomed. Follow Matt on Twitter at @MattBinder.
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