It's been pretty frustrating to watch the early days of the Elon Musk Twitter acquisition. Mistakes are to be expected, but the consequences of some of these mistakes should have been obvious. Elon purchased Twitter and campaigned to rid the platform of bots and fake accounts, and then made the verified badge purchasable thereby creating an easy solution to add credibility to bots and fake accounts. Maybe he thought the $8 would be cost prohibitive, but it clearly has not been. The most severe consequences of these actions, like the Eli Lilly incident, were not some highly improbably scenario. They were the most obvious and easily predictable potential consequences. The badge is literally called the blue verified badge...it exists to show that an account has been verified to be who it says it is. It's in the name! I grant that Elon's responsibilities here are greater than they seem from the sidelines. The company needs to cut spending and make more money. Sponsors were had paused there spending, and this seemed like a way to make money. It was just so short cited. Too quickly enacted and poorly thought out.