The fakes also had far fewer followers than the legitimate accounts.
The account handles are slightly different from the authentic ones representing Lightfoot and the transportation agencies. While Twitter is now offering gold checks for “verified organizations” and gray checks for government organizations and their affiliates, it was not always clear why some accounts had them Friday and others did not.įake accounts claiming to represent Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the city’s Department of Transportation and the Illinois Department of Transportation all began sharing messages early Friday falsely claiming that Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive - a major thoroughfare - would close to private traffic starting next month.Ī critical eye could spot obvious hints of the fraud. In the past, the checks meant that Twitter had verified that users were who they said they were. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system. But checks were also removed from accounts for major transit systems from San Francisco to Paris, national parks like Yosemite, official weather trackers and some elected officials. High-profile users who lost their blue checks Thursday included Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey and former President Donald Trump.
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But when the Elon Musk-owned platform started stripping blue verification checkmarks this week from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee, it left public agencies and other organizations around the world scrambling to figure out a way to show they’re trustworthy and avoid impersonators.
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