Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or Unsubstantiated Claims Relating to the Israel-Hamas War - Misinformation Monitor: October 2023 - NewsGuard
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  • @mlgEnglish
    9•8 months ago

    I mean this is already unsurprising given how easy it was to get a blue checkmark as a journalist back when it was Twitter.

    Literally any media corporation could get it for any of their employees. But for anyone else, you had to pay thousands to get a middleman who had a contact at twitter to verify you. It was such a weird system.