Twitter’s new paid blue tick spawns countless fake profiles, sowing chaos
14 November 2022 |
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We look at the fallout from Elon Musk’s pet project, Twitter’s new blue checkmark. The old blue tick was designed to mitigate the spread of disinformation.
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