Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, November 1st. I'm Eric

Pandy in Ferniala, Boudou. Here's what we're covering, salaries get more

transparent in some states. Plus, affirmative action is in peril at the Supreme

Court. But first, why could soon be harder to tell truth from fiction on Twitter?

That's today's one big thing.

Less than a week after Elon Musk officially became the owner of Twitter, we're

starting to learn more about what might change under his leadership. One

possibility is a Twitter will start charging up to $20 a month for the

subscription that'll allow users to keep that blue verification checkmark. That

confirms that world leaders, celebrities, journalists, local politicians, and

many others are who they say they are. Making that a paid feature, though, could

risk opening Twitter up to lots more missing disinformation. Axios and Sarah

Fisher's got more on this. So, Sarah, do we know why Musk is even suggesting this?

Erica sources tell Axios that Musk is interested in weaning Twitter off of

its reliance on advertising and pushing it further into subscriptions. And the

reason being is subscription revenue tends to be more reliable. It's

something that users will pay on a recurrent basis. And it's something that

users pay for instead of brands or advertisers. And then the other thing to

note is Twitter has tried to engage in subscription revenue. Last year, they

launched Twitter Blue, which gives users access to further features. They've

launched super follows, which allows users to pay to get additional tweets from

their favorite Twitter follows. And they've launched tweet tech subscriptions.

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