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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Melody Schreiber

‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content

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Job cuts in content moderation at Twitter mean accounts can continue to spread harmful information. Photograph: Malte Mueller/Getty Images/fStop

As the troubled social media platform Twitter rolled out a paid verification system and laid off thousands of content moderators, health misinformation accounts on the social network began pushing their messages to a wider audience than ever.

Under Elon Musk’s new direction for Twitter, several anti-vaccine accounts with tens of thousands of followers are now verified by paying $7.99 a month for Twitter Blue.

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