Twitter is adding verified check marks to the accounts of dead celebrities, making them look like paid Twitter Blue subscribers

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Twitter Blue verified account message

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Twitter Blue users paying $8 to stay verified hit by '#BlockTheBlue' campaign

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Suspended Block The Blue account
Twitter suspended the @BlockTheBlue account.

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Twitter users including Justin Bieber, Bill Gates, and Kim Kardashian are seeing their blue checkmarks disappear as Elon Musk charges $8 a month for verified accounts

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Elon Musk's Twitter had said it would remove blue legacy checkmarks on April 20.

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Twitter overhauled its verified check marks this weekend — but seemingly only for The New York Times account

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A screenshot of the New York Times Twitter profile, noticeably without its gold verification check.
A screenshot of the New York Times account without its gold verified check, as of Sunday morning.

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News outlets, athletes, celebs — and the White House — don't plan to pay for Twitter Blue checks

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A verified Twitter account displayed on a smartphone with a Twitter logo in the background.
Twitter said it was planning to begin removing "legacy" verified checks starting April 1.

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Twitter to charge businesses $1,000 per month to keep gold verified checks as it axes 'legacy' verified checks

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Twitter's official Twitter account seen with a new gold check mark, designating verification for businesses
Twitter is reportedly planning to charge businesses $1,000 to keep gold checks.

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Mark Zuckerberg unveils 'Meta Verified' paid subscriptions for Facebook and Instagram

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Meta Verified will cost $11.99 on the web.

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Ticketmaster Blames Bots for Taylor Swift Presale Chaos

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If there’s one thing the polarized body of the U.S. Congress can agree on, it’s that Ticketmaster sucks. After a spectacular failure of Live Nation Ticketmaster’s sale systems during presale for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour, the company was under the microscope of a Senate hearing today.

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