Be careful out there.
Former President Donald Trump briefly returned to Elon Musk-owned Twitter on Wednesday. Or, at least, a person claiming to be Trump did.
The San Francisco social media company updated its verification process on Wednesday, offering the vaunted"blue check" to accounts that paid $7.99 for the platform's new monthly subscription service. Accounts that were previously verified maintained their checkmarks. Both of those tweets garnered thousands of interactions before Twitter suspended the accounts, as the company did with the one purporting to be Trump.
Twitter differentiated between the two types of verified accounts differently for hours on Wednesday, briefly rolling out a gray checkmark labeled"Official" on certain profiles and users' timelines. Musk tweeted on Wednesday morning that he had"killed" the feature, before a director of product management at Twitter said the company was"just focusing on government and commercial entities to begin with.
"There are definitely things we're seeing today that would not have been there if this whole Elon Musk takeover had not happened," Bhaskar Chakravorti, the Fletcher School's dean of global business and an author of the report, told The New York Times on Wednesday, adding that Twitter is"extremely vulnerable" after mass layoffs that cost"a massive amount of human capital that was already standing at the gates of the content fortress and not doing their job...
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