Last Friday, Rep. Alexandria OcasioOcasio-Cortez expressed her dismay over Elon Musk'sMusk's plan to remove the legacy blue checkmarks that help verify Twitter users.
Last week, the social media platform announced it would be ending its Blue-Tick Verified program beginning April 1.
The company said on April 1 we will begin winding down our legacy verified program and removing legacy verified checkmarks. Ocasio-Cortez criticised Musk over his plans to revoke the blue checkmarks after the announcement.
Last time they tried to get the blue tick mark, she tweeted about two accounts that pretended to be the insulin-producing pharmaceutical firm and used Twitter's paid verification feature to pretend they were the Eli Lilly.
Following her tweet on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez posted another, pointing out that Twitter had decided to scale back its legacy verified program on April Fools' Day.
This isn't the first time that the New York politician has slammed Musk over his approach to Twitter verification. She said last year, Lmao was a billionaire who was trying to sell people on the idea that free speech is actually a $8 mo subscription plan.