Elon Musk mocks U.S. Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez After She Criticised His Twitter Blue Tick Subscription Fee

United States Representatives, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been mocked by new Twitter CEO, Elon Musk after she criticized his decision to charge verified Twitter users $8 monthly for the Twitter Blue Tick.

Taking to Twitter on Wednesday night, AOC wrote: “Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that ‘free speech’ is actually a $8/mo subscription plan.”

Elon Musk hit back: “Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8.”

Hours later, the congresswoman joked on Twitter that she seemed “to have gotten under a certain billionaire’s skin” next to a laughing emoji.
 

“Just a reminder that money will never buy your way out of insecurity, folks,” she wrote.
 

Musk also tweeted a screenshot of a sweatshirt from Ocasio-Cortez’s merchandise line with the price of $58 circled alongside a thinking face emoji.
 

Ocasio-Cortez defended the cost of the sweatshirt, while taking the opportunity to get in another jab at the billionaire.
 

She wrote: “My workers are union, have full healthcare + benefits like childcare help, and every one is paid a living wage. Proceeds go to community acts like tutoring underserved kids. You’re a union buster with an ego problem who pockets the change from underpaying and mistreating people.”
 

The Tesla CEO has received plenty of backlash on his proposal, including author Stephen King and actress Kathy Burke.

The world’s richest man previously mulled a $20-per-month blue tick verification fee, but appeared to lower the cost following criticism from horror author Stephen King.

Musk is looking to make good on his promise to make the social media platform turn a profit by introducing a charge for Twitter users wanting to keep their verification badge.

His plan to reportedly charge $20-a-month, however, appeared to sit poorly with King, who tweeted: “$20 a month to keep my blue check? F*** that, they should pay me,” wrote King, who has 6.9million followers. “If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.”

Musk replied: “We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers.”

“How about $8?” he asked, which is the price he’s settled on.

King isn’t the only blue-tick Twitter user to threaten to abandon their checkmark if a charge is introduced to the platform.