The White House hasn’t decided whether it would pay $8 a month to maintain verification of its Twitter Inc. accounts.
(Bloomberg) — The White House hasn’t decided whether it would pay $8 a month to maintain verification of its Twitter Inc. accounts.
“I don’t believe it’s an issue that made it to the president’s desk yet, not a conversation that the president is aware of,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday. “That’s something for the president that we need to talk to the president about.”
Jean-Pierre also sidestepped a question about Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform and what impact it was having on political discourse. Musk has been held up as a champion of free speech by conservatives.
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President Joe Biden and Musk have shown no warmth for one another. Musk’s Tesla Inc. has historically opposed labor unions, and the billionaire has recently aligned himself politically with Republicans.
Biden instead has championed automakers whose workforces are unionized.
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