LeBron James and the Blue Check Nobody Wants
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LeBron James and the Blue Check Nobody Wants
Elon Musk gave celebrities their Blue Checks back - whether they wanted them or not. That could amount to an illegal false endorsement.
The saddest man on Twitter got just a little bit sadder on Saturday, when users noticed Twitter CEO Elon Musk appeared to be handing out free verified check marks to accounts with more than one million followers — including the accounts of very famous and very dead people like Anthony Bourdain, Chadwick Boseman and Norm MacDonald.
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