Michigan Secretary of State Loses her Verification Badge After Probe into Musk's PAC
I noticed some odd patterns with Twitter verification badges
Late last night while hope scrolling on Twitter (I refuse to call it X), I noticed that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s blue verification badge had been removed from her personal account. My first thought was to check the Arizona Secretary of State’s personal account - Adrian Fontes - to see if his check was missing. I was prompted to check his because Arizona, along with Michigan, have indicted folks for the 2020 Trump fraudulent electors scheme. Sure enough, he didn’t have a verification badge, either.
Then I checked the Attorneys General for Michigan and Arizona - Dana Nessel and Kris Mayes respectively - and neither of their accounts were verified. So I dug deeper, checking all the states where the fraudulent elector scheme had been indicted, including Nevada, Wisconsin, and Georgia - Aaron Ford, Josh Kaul, and Chris Carr.
No blue check mark.
I thought, perhaps blue checks had been removed from all Attorneys General personal accounts. But no. Ken Paxton of Texas and Ashley Moody of Florida were verified. Then I checked some blue states that hadn’t been involved in the fraudulent elector scheme, and even Tish James of New York is verified.
I tweeted about the anomalies and then the MI SoS Jocelyn Benson quote tweeted me, also wondering where her blue check mark went.
Could this have to do with swing state AGs and SoSs? Or does it have something to do with Jocelyn Benson looking into Elon Musk’s pro-trump America PAC?
I’ll keep digging.
~AG
Thank you for being on the job for democracy. MSW. We each must keep an eye out for Musk, Trump & Thiel corruption in this election!
I had a tangential thought in this. I’ve read but not confirmed that everyone who signs up for Twitter is automatically set to follow Elon Musks account. If this is true, it seems,s to me to be a form of digital information insider trading. The analogy is far from perfect but I think it has some merit. He has a captive audience for his misinformation such as the deep fake video of VP Harris saying she’s a DEI hire and the more recent post since taken down that falsely claimed the UK was imprisoning rioters in the Falklands. In addition to forced access to his views, I assume there’s ad revenue that comes from it. I’m not sure this meets a legal test for financial fraud but at the very least, it’s shady.