Reports of the effectiveness of paid verification at preventing spam have been somewhat exaggerated. Here's an analysis of a spam botnet on X consisting of over a thousand accounts with paid blue verification checkmarks.
https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/the-nine-thousand-dollar-botnet
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