Author: Gengzhige
According to multiple foreign media reports, after learning that the well-known American social network platform " Twitter " will charge a monthly service fee of US$7.99 for users who apply for identity authentication, Olivier Veran, a French minister and government spokesperson, quit.
In an interview with a French TV station, Wei Lang said that if Twitter wants to charge for identity authentication, he might as well cancel his current authentication.
"If you want to pay for this, I ask them to cancel my account immediately," he said.
Verran also expressed dissatisfaction with the American businessman Eron Musk who recently completed the acquisition of the "Twitter" platform and proposed to charge for identity authentication services, and said he was not sure whether he would continue to use this social platform after Musk's acquisition.
He also said that Twitter is a public platform, but Musk wants to take this platform for himself, which makes him worried.
Previously, Musk publicly stated many times when he acquired Twitter that he was preparing to charge an annual fee of $7.99 per month for those who use the "Twitter" identity authentication service, and said that the move was to return the "privileges" of identity authentication to the "people". But opponents fear that the move will lead to the abuse of identity authentication services, which will lead to the spread of fake news and rumors on the platform.
However, according to the US " New York Times ", some people familiar with the matter said that this plan may be carried out until the end of the US midterm election this week, so as not to interfere with the election with the new mechanism.
