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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Reporter behind viral Eli Lilly parody account peels back curtain on ‘stupid little tweet’ that helped trigger insulin price cap

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Sean Morrow, a reporter covering corporations and politics at More Perfect Union, was looking for a way to poke fun at Elon Musk's new Twitter pay-to-play verification system when he discovered the perfect target – big pharma.

Knowing that more than 30 million Americans are diabetic, and that 31 per cent of that group requires insulin to survive, he decided to take aim at a drug company producing the generally cheap to manufacture but expensive to purchase medicine.

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