Sen. Ed Markey wrote to Elon Musk saying someone impersonated his Twitter with a verified blue check. Musk responded, suggesting his 'real account sounds like a parody.'

• The senator said his account was easy to impersonate with a fake account.

• Musk said that the real account sounded like a parody.

• Public policy staff who verify politicians' accounts were laid off by Musk.

The senator wrote a letter to Musk after someone impersonated him on the social networking site. Musk said the senator's real account sounded like a joke.

In a letter addressed to Musk, he said a Washington Post reporter was able to create a fake account in his name and obtain a blue checkmark from the social media site.

"It was not," the letter said. Someone could pay $8.00 to impersonate someone on your platform due to the lack of verification practices on the part of the social networking site.

The Washington Post reported on Friday that the outlet was verified in minutes, while experimenting with the verification system. The Post said that the blue check is mostly worthless due to the quick verification of both fake accounts.

The experiment had to be explained and how to prevent it from happening again.

Maybe it's because your real account sounds like a joke? Musk replied in a reply to the congressman. He wanted to know why Markey wore a mask in his picture.

—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022

The congressman called out the billionaire's companies under various investigations.

The FTC has a consent decree with one of your companies. The NHTSA is looking into another case. You're spending a lot of time on the internet. Fix your businesses. Either Congress will or will not.

The Federal Trade Commission is keeping a close eye on recent developments at the social networking site. While the autopilot feature was activated, the NHTSA assessed data from 830,000 cars and almost 200 new cases of crashes.

Musk said last week that he wanted his followers to be the most accurate source of information. He posted a link to a news site that spread false claims about the assault on Pelosi's husband. He was fact-checked for being " 100% wrong" after he said that the biggest driver of clicks on the internet was the social networking site.

Several advertisers have stopped running ads on the site because of Musk. Several top executives and a large chunk of the company's staff have been laid off since he took over.

Business Insider has an article on it.