The news media, which is now extensively fenced off behind pay walls, is upset that Twitter might consider a subscription-based model:

According to Platformer, a newsletter covering big tech, Musk and his top advisors have discussed charging all Twitter’s users a blanket subscription fee to use the social media site.

Source: Elon Musk putting Twitter behind a paywall could ‘sound the death knell’ for the social media platform, experts says

A subscription fee would likely stamp out the bots.

The media is also upset that their elite blue check status is going away.

The media hypocrisy is kinda funny.