One of Twitter CEO Elon Musk’s least favorite news outlets, The New York Times, has recently had the verification tick mark removed from its main account. This removal follows Musk’s criticism of the news outlet as “propaganda” on Sunday.

When the billionaire acquired control of the microblogging service in October of last year, he made it a point to restrict access to the blue checkmark that denotes a valid account to paying subscribers alone.

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The New York Times was one of the major media organizations, businesses, and nonprofits that had previously lost their blue tick and been identified by Musk’s new structure as verified business accounts with a gold tick.

After the launch of the subscription service known as Twitter Blue, these organizations would have to pay a monthly charge of $1,000 in the US and $50 for each additional associated account in order to keep the gold tick.

Now, hours after the New York Times lost its verified badge on the social media network, a representative for the publication announced that it will not pay a monthly charge to maintain its verified check mark credential on Twitter.

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“We aren’t planning to pay the monthly fee for check mark status for our institutional Twitter accounts,” the Times said in a statement. “We also will not reimburse reporters for Twitter Blue for personal accounts, except in rare instances where this status would be essential for reporting purposes,” the newspaper added.

Elon Musk tweeted early on Sunday morning that the Times’ checkmark would be taken off. Subsequently, he published harsh comments about the newspaper, which had actively covered the story on Twitter, as well as about the shortcomings of Tesla’s partially autonomous driving systems, both of which, Musk manages.

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Other Times accounts, including its business news and opinion sections, as well as numerous correspondents for the news organization, continued to have either blue or gold checkmarks till Sunday.

Twitter has not yet answered questions about the removal of The New York Times check mark.