Twitter Blue profiles are already a hotbed of misinformation

A startling percentage of tweets from accounts paying for verification include verifiably wrong information, according to new research.

Twitter Blue, Elon Musk’s grand plan to rewrite the rules of verification, has been touted by the social media company’s new owner as a great democratizing solution to the issues he had with the platform’s legacy-verified accounts. For just $8 a month, accounts that otherwise wouldn’t have the clout of a verified badge on Twitter can now attain one, and with it, the legitimacy of being a trusted, verified source on Twitter.

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