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The move comes in response to a rise in fake accounts on the platform after new CEO Elon Musk enabled users to pay $8 for the coveted blue token, which was previously only available to verified accounts of prominent figures like actors, politicians and other public. the figures.
Twitter’s new membership plan seems to be a sign of just how crazy things are about to get on the microblogging site. Anyone can now get certified using the new approach for just $8 in the US.
Unsurprisingly, the deployment did not go well because a number of fake identities received verification and started spreading false information. Some of them even went through the chaos of the rain on the website.
Similarly, a tweet coming from a fake blue account of US aerospace company Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of military aircraft, weapons and other defense equipment, shocked users.
The tweet mentioned the ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Israel, and even the US itself, while accusing them of human rights abuses.
A tweet by impersonators of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) read, “we love apartheid.”
Some fake accounts impersonated the pharmaceutical firm, Eli Lilly and Company, and said they were offering free insulin to everyone. However, a few hours later, another fake account of the company with a blue tick appeared, spoofing the denials made by the real company.
Musk had previously said that they will be making a lot of changes to Twitter in the coming days, “Please note that Twitter will be doing a lot of stupid things in the coming months. We’ll keep what works and change what doesn’t.” However, the chaos reigning on the microblogging site may just be a disaster waiting to happen.
