Twitter verified a Washington Post columnist's fake US Senator Ed Markey account, after Elon Musk said "all verified accounts will be manually authenticated" (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:

Twitter verified a Washington Post columnist’s fake US Senator Ed Markey account, after Elon Musk said “all verified accounts will be manually authenticated”  —  Elon Musk said Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue.  Our tech columnist was still able to get a checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.