The New York Times has lost its blue tick on Twitter after it said it would not pay to remain verified.
Ednews informs via BBC that Twitter has started removing verification badges from accounts which already had a blue tick, after announcing they would be part of a paid subscription from 1 April.
The New York Times, along with several other organisations and celebrities, said they would not pay for the tick.
It prompted Elon Musk to launched a volley of insults at the newspaper.
"The real tragedy of @NYTimes is that their propaganda isn't even interesting", Mr Musk, who owns Twitter, wrote on the platform.
"Also, their feed is the Twitter equivalent of diarrhea. It's unreadable," he added.
There has been no official comment from Twitter and the New York Times has not responded to Mr Musk's comments.