Twitter has stopped selling verification badges

The service had to be abandoned due to fake accounts with purchased verification, writes Reuters. A paid monthly Twitter Blue subscription costs eight dollars and gives anyone the opportunity to buy an account verification badge. After the subscription went live, many fake accounts appeared, including fake accounts of large companies - Tesla, SpaceX, Nestle, Lockheed Martin. The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company had to apologize for a post about free insulin published by a fake account. The new owner of the social network, Elon Musk, wrote that all accounts impersonating another person without a clear indication that this is a “parody” will be blocked forever

Source: Telegram channel “Editorial”

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