TWITTER CEO ELON Musk finally made good on his promise to strip thousands of accounts of their verification badges, commonly known as blue ticks, yesterday. Many major news services, such as RTÉ News, Reuters, AFP and CNN, now have no mark distinguishing them from copycat or counterfeit accounts. The Journal is among those publishers to have lost its verification badge. Since taking control of Twitter in October last year, Musk has repeatedly warned that verification badges would be exclusively available to members who pay at least €8 a month for Twitter Blue, Twitter’s subscription service. Twitter has also stripped thousands...