X Removes ‘New York Times’ , Verification Badge.<br />The gold "verified" badge was removed on Oct. 17 without notice, 'The Washington Post' reports.<br />The gold "verified" badge was removed on Oct. 17 without notice, 'The Washington Post' reports.<br />The news company has <br />55 million followers on the platform.<br />As of Oct. 19, other 'New York Times' <br />accounts still had verification badges.<br />X CEO Elon Musk has often expressed his contempt for various news agencies.<br />In August, he said that 'The New York Times' supports "calls for genocide" and "if ever there <br />was a time to cancel that publication, it is now.".<br />X went on to instate "a five-second delay <br />for clicks" to the publication's website, <br />'The Washington Post' reports.<br />The delay was removed after <br />'The Washington Post' reported on it.<br />On Oct. 5, X removed news article headlines <br />and "demoted posts with links," according <br />to 'The Washington Post.'.<br />Musk said the move was to encourage users to spend more time on the platform, and <br />"there is less time spent if people click away.".<br />According to Cardiff University professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, the changes are "part of a larger trend toward making Twitter/X more difficult for news organizations to use.".<br />It is likely to have a significant adverse impact <br />on click-through rates, because platform users <br />will no longer have the necessary context to <br />understand the content of links — and therefore little reason to click on them, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University professor, <br />via 'The Washington Post'
