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4:29Now PlayingElon Musk scrambles to cover up his biggest mistake yet since purchasing Twitter with desperate stunt adding blue checks to dead celebrities. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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Twitter is adding verified check marks to the accounts of dead celebrities, making them look like paid Twitter Blue subscribers
"Dead celebrities are the latest to endorse Twitter Blue — at least according to the verification badges applied to their profiles.
Kobe Bryant, Norm Macdonald, Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman, and Michael Jackson were among the celebrities who each got a posthumous blue check added to their Twitter accounts as the site began to purge legacy verifications on Thursday, pivoting to only displaying the checks on the profiles who pay for the subscription service.
Boseman's former manager and a lawyer for the Bryant family did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment."
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