‘Forcing people who have died to falsely endorse your product is an ethical bridge that most companies don’t cross,’ wrote one user KieronMonks reports
took a new twist as public figures stripped of their blue badges had them returned over Saturday night, including several who are dead.
But this weekend, prominent users of the platform reported that their badges had returned for free, with a label falsely indicating that they were paid subscribers to the Twitter Blue service. Despite the implication when you click the blue badge that has mysteriously re-appeared beside my name, I am not paying for the "honour".British actor Sir Ian McKellen wrote: “Despite the implication when you click the blue badge that has mysteriously re-appeared beside my name, I am not paying for the ‘honour’.”
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