Musk had defended the paid verification plan by saying that the blue test would be the “great leveler”.

New Delhi:

Elon Musk introduced on Tuesday that the relaunch of the ‘Blue Verified’ badge on Twitter will probably be briefly suspended “until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation”.

After taking up the social media platform, Musk launched the $8 blue tick verification plan but it surely resulted within the mushrooming of lots of pretend accounts.

Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified till there may be excessive confidence of stopping impersonation.

Will most likely use totally different colour test for organizations than people.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 22, 2022

“Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation. Will probably use different color check for organizations than individuals,” Musk tweeted.

Musk had defended the much-criticised paid verification plan by saying that the blue checkmark would be the “great leveler”.

“Widespread verification will democratize journalism & empower the voice of the people,” he tweeted.

The plan backfired, nevertheless, when verified handles modified their person names to ‘Elon Musk’ to check the brand new Twitter proprietor who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist”. Thousands of such accounts had been suspended, together with that of comic Kathy Griffin who had two million followers on the platform.

Musk lately ran a ballot to reinstate the suspended account of former US President Donald Trump. Roughly 15 million folks voted on Twitter which noticed a slender win for individuals who supported the transfer.