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As Twitter hemorrhaged advertising revenue and Musk became increasingly desperate to materialize an army of $8/month paid subscribers, he pulled another scam: he nonconsensually applied blue ticks to prominent accounts, in a bid to trick normies into thinking that widely read people valued blue ticks so much they were paying for them out of their own pockets:
bbc.com/news/technology-653653…
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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113594894098338296
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65365366
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