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Twitter Blue’s verification blues.

Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler has again created a fake account for Sen. Ed Markey that was again verified as real by Twitter’s revamped authentication process:

I expected Twitter would ask me to prove my identity... But no. After 7 days, a blue check mark appeared on the faux Markey account, no questions asked.

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