Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James attacked the policy of the businessman and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, assuring that he is not willing to pay the corresponding monthly fee to maintain his verification on the social network.
Through the microblogging platform itself, LeBron James made a publication in which he made it clear that Musk’s intention to charge the subscription to ‘Twitter Blue’ will not be followed by him regardless of whether they stop verifying his account.
“Well, I guess my blue check will disappear soon because if you know me, I’m not going to pay,” said the four-time NBA champion, in a post that 24 hours later has accumulated more than 250,000 likes on the social network.
The tweet was also supported by other celebrities such as actress and singer Rachel Nichols or former NBA player Tim Young.
Since Musk announced the purchase of Twitter for $44 billion, he has made some controversial decisions, including starting to charge for the subscription to Twitter Blue so that users have access to an account verification in exchange for $8 dollars a month, among other things. improvements.
He later pointed out that all past verifications would be withdrawn, recently indicating that this would happen on April 1, because according to him the way in which they were assigned was corrupt.
However, verification does not allow identity theft to be defeated either and one of the victims was LeBron James himself when an account with the user @KINGJamez that was verified with the Blue Check and the same image of the King published that he requested a “change of team” to the Lakers, which caused the entire NBA environment to explode for several hours.