Twitter Blue Checks for Dead Celebrities Add to Verification Confusion
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Twitter Inc. users already having to navigate a flurry of fake accounts after the removal of legacy blue ticks are noticing more inconsistencies: personalities who have been dead for years supposedly holding paid verification accounts.People were confused after seeing the Twitter profiles of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and National Basketball Association player Kobe Bryant sporting the blue ticks. Bourdain died in 2018, and Bryant in 2020. Twitter's Legacy Blue Checks Are Gone, Stirring Confusion Others were angered by the addition of blue ticks for profiles of people such as prominent journalist and columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in 2018.While an explanation accompanying the ticks said the “account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and veri...