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X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
This whole incident probably took place from automation. As others have stated they changed the profile photo and the system needs verification. The software probably has a hash value for the photo and when they changed the photo the hash value changed triggering the chain of events. You guys are really hung up on hating him but he probably had nothing to do with it other than the initial design verification.
Not everyone is paying for the blue checkmark as far as i know
But in this case, it was a paid blue checkmark.