Blue check blues: Twitter tricked into verifying teen’s fake 2020 candidate for Congress while real people languish ...News

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A high school student tricked Twitter into verifying an account he made for a fake candidate for Congress from Rhode Island, proving the platform’s vaunted election integrity efforts are no match for a bored teen. Rhode Island Republican Andrew Walz’s Twitter has been suspended as of Friday, but before that, the blue-checked politician was seemingly a candidate like any other. Perhaps the platitudes that graced his page were a little emptier - “Let’s make a change in Washington together,” really? - and the follower count a bit low, but the coveted blue check bestowed by Twitter sometime in the past few weeks would likely have convinced

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