$8 is the cost of a blue tick (and possibly additional rules and regulation)

Legal expert Mark Leiser digs into Elon Musk's attempts to move Twitter away from an ad-funded model.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced last week that the microblogging platform will begin charging users $8 a month to integrate the famous blue tick associated with verified accounts into their profiles. Musk has claimed that the fee will also provide additional features like the ability to post “long videos” and “creator monetization”, “priority in replies and search&r