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Opinion | The great Twitter cull looms for leaders and organizations

Hundreds of accounts of world leaders and their institutions, plus 40 organizations and their leaders, were to be demoted.

Twitter verification is essential to curb impersonation and fake news.
Twitter verification is essential to curb impersonation and fake news. (AN/Souvik Banerjee/Unsplash)

Several hundred governments, world leaders and international organizations are set to lose their verification as Twitter pulls the plug on legacy blue check marks.

Some 420,000 legacy verified Twitter accounts were slated to be demoted on the platform, including more than 300 accounts of heads of state and government, foreign ministers, and their institutions, as well as some 40 major international organizations and their leaders.

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