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"Good Musk" is back with his micropayments plan for media

Even as some predict Twitter's demise and amid a genuine fiasco over his "blue checkmark" reform, Musk may have done a great service to the news business

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Dan Perry
May 03, 2023
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Elon Musk’s image has taken a brutal beating over his shambolic takeover of Twitter, which led business people to question his reputation for brilliance and journalists to rethink their reliance on the microblogging platform. But I come to praise Musk, not bury him even deeper, for in recent days he has done a startlingly good thing.

I refer to his April…

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