New research shows Elon Musk's verification scheme is running headlong into Twitter's 'dark web problem'

What happens when a new, poorly-conceived verification system at Twitter meets a ready-made underground marketplace of stolen accounts and bot amplification tools? New research reveals that nearly all the ingredients required to build fake Twitter accounts have been available on the dark web "for quite some time," while Twitter-related phishing scams have gone up following the introduction of paid verification.

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