A columnist easily tricked Elon Musk's new Twitter verification system by posing as a US senator

Jan 5 2023 by Business Insider

 
A Washington Post columnist said he easily created a fake verified account on Twitter for Senator Ed Markey.

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Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler successfully tricked Twitter's new verification system. Posing as US Senator Ed Markey, he paid $8 for a Twitter Blue account. Elon Musk had halted and rebooted the service, wanting to be confident it could weed out impostors.

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