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by pjc50 1324 days ago
Twitter verification started because of a fraud and a lawsuit: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/193279-tony-la-russa-law...

The news is that they're effectively removing what verification there was, and the checkmark becomes basically a TF2 hat that means nothing. You'll be able to change your display name to "Elon Musk" and buy a checkmark.