“Y’all mf’s out here worried about the wrong check,” he tweeted. Rapper the Game also took a money-minded approach to his reaction. After losing the check mark, he tweeted , “Check gone ...

But to other users, the check mark has become a status symbol, unfairly reserved for a select group. It’s a sentiment Mr. Musk, with his feudalist metaphor, appears to share.

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