LeBron James didn’t pay for his Twitter checkmark, but Elon gave it to him anyway
by Alex Heath from The Verge - All Posts on (#6B0GH)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has started getting rid of legacy blue checks for those who don't pay up. Well, unless you're LeBron James and a couple of other celebrities.
The Verge has confirmed that an employee at Twitter recently emailed James, who has previously said he wouldn't pay for verification, to extend a complimentary subscription to Twitter Blue for your account, @kingjames, on behalf of Elon Musk."
We contacted James' longtime media advisor, Adam Mendelsohn, who confirmed that James hasn't paid to be verified. However, after we first published this information, Musk said that he's paying a few" subscriptions personally," including for the accounts belonging to Stephen King and William Shatner.
James has perhaps been the most famous hater of...