If you were tricked into buying a blue tick on this pretense, well, caveat emptor. Besides, it's not a lie, it's a premature truth. *Someday* all those widely read users with nonconsensual blue ticks will *surely* value them so highly that they *do* start to pay for them. And if they don't? Well, Musk got your $8: "that makes me smart."
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