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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Blanco

Elon Musk is verifying dead people’s Twitter accounts in bid to spread blue checks

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Twitter has added posthumous blue checks to the accounts of multiple dead celebrities.

Paul Walker, Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Bosman, Anthony Bourdain and Norm Macdonald are some of the deceased celebrities whose accounts appeared to be “verified” through a Twitter Blue subscription as of Sunday evening. It is the latest chapter in Elon Musk’s Twitter controversy saga, following his attempt to mock A-listers who boycotted Twitter Blue by paying for their verification status himself.

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