Russian propagandists said to buy Twitter blue-check verifications


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Musk has said that in the future, tweets and replies from such paid subscribers will be featured even more prominently in Twitter’s news feed and search. But some of the accounts have already been getting more views in recent weeks. Musk boosts misinformation Musk has boosted one of the accounts by replying to its tweets, including one spreading a lie that thousands of NATO troops had died in Ukraine. Reset said the surge showed a major problem with a system that allows anonymous accounts to buy verification, giving them better placement in searches, mentions and replies. The accounts it turned...