And there’s definitely been a lot of that happening on Twitter lately. Case in point: the online hooligan (at least we presume) who brilliantly decided to set up a fake verified Twitter account ...

Drew Harwell of the Washington Post wrote over the holiday about the recently suspended Twitter account of the ... The real giveaway that this was a fake account, however, was the tweets themselves.

A flood of fake accounts impersonating public figures and brands overtook Twitter last week after the launch of paid verification badges, raising fears about the supercharged spread of misinformation.

After switching the handle, Twitter made Fowler wait a week before signing up for Blue. After seven more days, the fake account received its blue check mark, Fowler wrote. Markey, a longtime ...

Numerous fake Twitter accounts – which still appear as “verified” – have started to appear on the platform following the launch of Twitter Blue, with Nintendo and Valve among the companies ...

including “Perry Mason” and “Mare of Easttown,” by using fake accounts on Twitter, now known as X. The alleged texts, provided by Temori, were reviewed and verified via their metadata ...

including a fake verified account for Twitter itself. But this Tweet, in fact, is real: Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months. We will keep what works & change what ...

Take, for example, Twitter's exploration of expanding tweets to more than 140 characters or an edit button. Introducing a fake news button wouldn't be too difficult. Twitter already has a drop ...

In a drive to offer free verification to top organizations, Twitter briefly gave a gold checkmark to a fake Disney account. The gold checkmark indicates that the account belongs to a company.

For advertisers who have put their business with Twitter on hold, the fake accounts could be the last straw: Musk’s rocky run atop the platform — laying off half its workforce and triggering ...

First on Fox: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday launched an investigation against Twitter, claiming that the company has underreported its fake bot accounts and those numbers have ...

Twitter has removed a network of more than 40 fake accounts that were used to try and affect political discourse in Israel and increase tensions among right-wing voters ahead of the November 1 ...