After Twitter last week purged blue check marks from the accounts of users who hadn’t subscribed to its Twitter Blue service, the once coveted badges began reappearing this weekend on high profile Twitter users’ accounts without their permission. Actor Ian McKellen , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and podcaster Jon Favreau were among the many Twitter users who saw the blue...
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