Twitter's safety chief says it needs to 'invest more in identity verification'

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Twitter's safety chief says it needs to 'invest more in identity verification'
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Yoel Roth, Head of Safety & Integrity at Twitter, says that the company has more to do when it comes to identity verification.

Twitter’s safety chief says the company has more to do for verification than paying $8 per month for Twitter Blue.. Elon Musk, who acquired the company almost two weeks ago, has pitched the idea that Twitter Blue will increase in price from $4 per month to $8 per month. What are you getting for that extra four bucks? The now infamous blue checkmark.

Well, to a point. Yoel Roth, Head of Safety & Integrity at Twitter, took to the social media platform today to post a long thread about what the company is going to do to ensure that the new Twitter Blue doesn’t create a flood of impersonated accounts.

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