Twitter blue tick: Multiple Hillarys and New Yorks as verifications disappear

An account posing as Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – which are currently battling the Sudanese army in a major power struggle – tweeted that its leader, Hemedti, had been killed. Although the account is fake, it does have a blue tick – while the real account does not. Twitter’s own public metrics indicated the tweet has been seen well oven a million times.