Karine Jean-Pierre smiles when asked if Biden and his associates under Elon Musk will pay $8 a month for Twitter verification — and jokes that the issue “hasn’t reached the president’s desk.”
- Karine Jean-Pierre had a jovial response when asked if President Joe Biden’s administration would pay Twitter $8 a month to have their accounts verified
- “I don’t think it’s an issue that has made it onto the president’s desk yet,” she said with a smile during her daily press briefing
- Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced Monday that users would have to pay $8 per month for the verified tick
- The administration has several Twitter accounts with the verification mark, including @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, @FLOTUS
- Biden and Musk had an antagonistic relationship
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had a jovial response when asked if President Joe Biden’s administration would pay Twitter $8 a month to have their accounts verified.
“I don’t think it’s an issue that has made it onto the president’s desk yet,” she said with a smile at her daily press conference, while journalists laughed.
“We’re focused on a lot of things,” she noted, “but of course we’ll let you know if anything changes and we’ll definitely give you an update.”
Elon Musk plans to change the verification process that gives accounts a blue tick as he takes over Twitter.
Musk announced Monday that users would have to pay $8 per month for the verified tick.
Administration has several Twitter accounts with the verification mark, including @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, @FLOTUS, @VPOTUS, and many staff accounts including Jean-Pierre’s @PressSec
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had a jovial response when asked if President Joe Biden’s administration would pay Twitter $8 a month to have their accounts verified
The Biden administration has several Twitter accounts with the verification mark, including @WhiteHouse, @POTUS, @FLOTUS
Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last week on Oct. 28. Almost immediately, the tech billionaire fired several senior employees at the social media company and dissolved its board of directors.
He begins implementing several changes at the social media company.
Musk explained his plan for Twitter’s verified system on the social media platform itself.
“Twitter’s current lords and peers system of who has a blue tick and who doesn’t is bullshit,” Musk wrote Monday. ‘Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.”
A blue tick allows other Twitter users to verify that other users are who they say they are.
President Joe Biden and Twitter CEO Elon Musk had an antagonistic relationship
As for Biden and Musk, the two men had an antagonistic relationship.
Musk has complained that Biden hasn’t promoted Tesla as much as some of his peers in the space in his push to make electric vehicles obsolete.
Biden and his administration have criticized Musk’s company for not using union employees.
In June, the president personally shot Musk after the prominent CEO criticized his handling of the economy.
“Good luck on his trip to the moon,” Biden quipped of the SpaceX founder.