Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, July 13th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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I don't remember if we covered this, but Twitter recently rolled out an extensive new verification system

that promised to offer a systematic and comprehensive way

for a broad range of folks to get those coveted blue check marks.

But I haven't even tried it out yet myself

because it had so many procedural hoops to jump through.

It wasn't worth my time when I looked into it.

And also I just keep hearing stories of obviously prominent people going through those hoops

only to be denied verification once again.

And now, after a user made waves by highlighting this on Twitter recently,

Twitter has confirmed it inadvertently verified six essentially robot accounts,

obvious bot accounts,

saying that the inauthentic accounts are now suspended

and their badges have been removed.

So yeah, Twitter verification remains a cluster you know what, quoting the daily dot.

In a tweet thread on Sunday, Twitter user conspirator Northenia, a data scientist focused on disinformation, highlighted six newly created accounts that all had been verified.

While it's common for malicious actors to hack into already verified accounts, these six users had all been created just 26 days ago.

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