Fake Pentagon Explosion on Twitter, Considered Real

In the past few weeks, Twitter’s controversial owner, Elon Musk, has removed the blue tick checkmarks for accounts without a Blue membership. The fact that every Blue member has a blue tick has started to make fake accounts look like they are real. Twitter, which has faced many problems since Musk’s purchase, has recently become the agenda with the return of deleted tweets due to a deficit on the platform.

As we all know, blue ticks on Twitter were previously only given to approved people. This made it easier for everyone to understand if the account holder was really that person. However, giving blue ticks to anyone who pays Blue fee with fake accounts pretending to be real filled. Here is the chaos caused by these fake accounts, caused a fall in the stock market with a fake explosion image.

Image created with artificial intelligence caused a drop in the stock market

A fake Bloomberg news agency account with a blue tick on Twitter shared an image of an explosion near the Pentagon. The image in the explosion was created using artificial intelligence applications. However, the fact that this fake account has a blue tick misled other news agencies. Dozens of genuinely verified accounts, who thought they were shared from the real Bloomberg account, spread these explosion images.

Russian news agency RTThis news was also shared on social media accounts of . Twitter sources were cited as the source. Although it was later understood that the incident was not actually real and that the images were created by artificial intelligence applications, this news spread gradually.

After the news spread stock market fell and in the stock market There was a surge of 500 billion dollars. The account was suspended after the incident.