US Senator Ed Markey slams Musk for failing to respond to his letter - San Francisco News

In the letter to Musk, Markey (Democrat from Massachusetts) had warned Musk to "fix your companies, or Congress will".

"@elonmusk could respond to my tweets but failed to respond to my letter by yesterday's deadline and answer basic questions about Twitter verification," posted in a fresh tweet .

"Congress must end the era of failed Big Tech self-regulation and pass laws that put user safety over the whims of billionaires," he added.

Earlier this month, Musk had mocked Markey after the latter wrote a letter to the new Twitter CEO, slamming him for launching the $8 Blue service with verification.

In his letter, the Democrat said: "A Washington Post reporter easily created a fake Twitter account in my name, and by paying $8 was also able to obtain Twitter's blue checkmark, signifying that Twitter had 'verified' the account was indeed that of a sitting US Senator."

Replying to the Senator, Musk said: "Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody?"

About an hour later, the world's richest man tweeted again, asking "And why does your pp (profile picture) have a mask?" in reference to the Senator's Twitter profile photo, which shows him wearing a face covering.