CNBC--Stanford guy speaks to Twitter-X/Musk giving the bad guys a leg up

and removing the tools from the good guys by taking away all real verification of blue check marks, allowing $8 purchase of blue check marks and taking away researchers' ability to comb through data to see if there are problems of bot farms cropping up influencing key narratives on X

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/10/05/elon-musk-has-cut-off-the-good-guys-empowered-the-bad-guys-on-x-says-stanfords-alex-stamos.html