{"id":54953,"date":"2023-04-06T02:29:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T02:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/06\/akon-denies-calling-out-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T02:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T02:29:19","slug":"akon-denies-calling-out-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/06\/akon-denies-calling-out-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Akon Denies Calling Out Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Akon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Akon has denied calling out Twitter owner, Elon Musk for slapping prices on the microblogging site\u2019s blue verification badges.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Oh Africa\u2019 crooner had in a now-deleted tweet accused Elon Musk of \u201cforcing\u201d people to pay the Twitter verification that was created to protect accounts from fake ones, insisting that he won\u2019t pay for the new Twitter blue subscription.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack in the day, Twitter was begging musicians to stay on cause they don\u2019t have traffic. They came up with a verification process to protect accounts from fake ones, now @elonmusk is taking that away and forcing us to pay- FYI, I ain\u2019t paying shit for something we helped build,\u201d a tweet from the singer\u2019s verified account read on April 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>However, in a new tweet posted on Tuesday, Akon denied making the remarks, claiming that his account was hacked.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote, \u201cMy account was just hacked. This tweet didn\u2019t come from me. Whoever hacked my account, please keep your personal opinions away from my profile respectfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akon \u00a0 Akon has denied calling out Twitter owner, Elon Musk for slapping prices on the microblogging site\u2019s blue verification badges. 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