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Is The Twitter Blue Check Meaningless Now?

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Matt Margolis
Feb 15, 2023
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Last year, Elon Musk bought Twitter and started making many changes. Most were fantastic and brought free speech back to a platform that systematically censored conservative voices—myself included. I was banned for roughly ten months.

One change I disapproved of was limiting account verification to a paid subscription f…

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