In the past few weeks, Twitter’s controversial owner, Elon Musk, has removed the blue tick checkmarks for accounts without a Blue membership. The fact that every Blue member has a blue tick has started to make fake accounts look like they are real. Twitter, which has faced many problems since Musk’s purchase, has recently become the agenda with the return of deleted tweets due to a deficit on the platform.
As we all know, blue ticks on Twitter were previously only given to approved people. This made it easier for everyone to understand if the account holder was really that person. But giving blue ticks to anyone who paid the Blue fee flooded the platform with fake accounts that looked like they were real. The chaos caused by these unreal accounts caused a fall in the stock market with a fake explosion image.
Image created with artificial intelligence caused a drop in the stock market
A fake Bloomberg news agency account with a blue tick on Twitter shared an image of an explosion near the Pentagon. The image in the explosion was created using artificial intelligence applications. However, the fact that this fake account has a blue tick misled other news agencies. Dozens of really verified accounts that thought they were shared from the real Bloomberg account spread these explosion images.
This news was shared as if it were real on the social media accounts of the Russian news agency RT. Twitter sources were cited as the source. Although it was later understood that the event was not actually real and that the images were created by artificial intelligence applications, this news spread gradually.
After the news spread, the stock market fell and a fluctuation of 500 billion dollars occurred in the stock market. The account was suspended after the incident.
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