Last month, Musk promised that troublemakers would not be allowed to impersonate famous people on the site.
He was incorrect again. During the first disastrous launch of the feature, Fowler was able to impersonate a US senator, using a verified account with the name "Senator EdMarkey".
Back in November, Musk promised that all blue checkmark accounts would be manually authenticating.
It could allow for the spread of misinformation and cause chaos on the internet.
Fowler says that under Musk's leadership, users face a greater risk of seeing fake and thinking it is real.
The platform's legacy verification system has made it difficult for it to come up with an alternative. Over the last two months, Musk has tried several versions of the same thing.
The only thing it took for Fowler was to create a new account on his phone and pay for it with a credit card. The accounts need to be 90 days old and linked to a phone number, but he was able to change them.
Fowler didn't ask for a piece of identification, which is common for other online services.
It's a troubling failure for a platform that was once seen as a place you can trust.
The real Markey told Fowler that it was a joke that Musk couldn't implement a functioning verification regime.
It was said that it fixedverification. I pretended to be a senator. The Washington Post is owned by The Washington Post.
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