In recent weeks, controversial Twitter owner Elon Musk has been removing the blue checkmarks from accounts without a Blue membership. The fact that every Blue member has a blue check mark makes fake accounts look real. Twitter, which has faced a lot of trouble since Musk’s purchase, has recently been on the agenda with the return of deleted tweets due to a shortage on the platform.

As we all know, blue checkmarks on Twitter used to only be given to approved people. This made it easier for everyone to understand if the account holder was really that person. However, blue ticks give to anyone who pays Blue fee with fake accounts pretending to be real stuffed up. 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 stock market to fall

A fake Bloomberg news agency account with a blue check mark 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 check mark misled other news agencies. Dozens of real verified accounts who thought they were being shared from the real Bloomberg account spread these explosion images.

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

After the news spread stock market fell and on the stock market There was an increase of $500 billion. The account was suspended after the incident.