⚠️ BEWARE ⚠️ Twitter's new paid verification system instituted under new owner Elon Musk has led to many fake accounts impersonating athletes.
Elon Musk will potentially charge $8 per month for users to be verified on recently-acquired Twitter. is to be believed, LeBron James wants to leave the Los Angeles Lakers, Adam Schefter says Josh McDaniels is done as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, Aroldis Chapman is sticking with the New York Yankees, and Connor McDavid has been traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the New York Islanders.
James, the four-time NBA champion and four-time league MVP, regularly engages with his more than 52 million followers. So maybe it appeared plausible to some folks that he would request a trade via that medium with his Lakers off to a 2-8 start this season.Twitter lost more than 1.3 million users in the week after Elon Musk bought it
There were nearly 10,000 engagements with the fake post purporting to be ESPN reporter Schefter relaying information about McDaniels, whose Raiders are 2-6 in his first year in charge: more than 6,000 likes, more than 3,000 retweets and more than 500 replies.Chapman supposedly told the world — in English and Spanish — that he re-signed with the Yankees for three years.
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