You can literally buy snuff BDs from a sketchy guy in a storage unit. Moped right the fuck outta there after killing him

He said the US government is too powerful, or something along those lines, for bots to be on Twitter in the case of another country using social media for misinformation.

I said it's happening, right now, with countless other social media platforms. No one is going to rush to Twitter to get accurate news, so charging people to have a blue check mark, that anyone can pay for, doesn't just end bots and misinformation.

I don't see how that was lost in translation

Twitter isn't government run. Twitter is just as susceptible to infiltration as Facebook or Whatsapp. Often times the US government has problems regulating these companies due to their own lack of knowledge on computer systems and infrastructure as a whole.

The US government would have absolutely no control on whether not conflicting countries can use social media as a tool for misinformation. Paid subscriptions do not stop this problem.

These countries don't even need to pay the subscription fee to continue to spread misinformation. There is an entire crowd of people who refuse to consume any information provided by actual verified outlets. This is nothing short of another billionaire trying to capitalize off of destablization. Blue check marks do nothing to fight these issues lol

That doesn't stop countries like China at all

How does charging 8 dollars a month stop bots? That's the whole thing I'm confused about. If a country like China or Russia have been engaging in misinformation through Twitter, that is actively working, how does an 8 dollar subscription fee stop these giant countries with interests in destabilizing their enemies, stop them from doing it? Wouldn't Elon just be getting paid for countries to actively destabilize each other using Twitter for misinformation?