X (formerly Twitter) verifies false Deer Park Police Department account

Things are not looking good for Elon Musk’s platform. For a few days, an account claiming to be the DPPD was verified with a grey government checkmark, meaning X staff manually verified the account to be affiliated with a local government. The account mainly made SILLY GOOFY posts, but that didn’t stop X from eventually removing the grey check.

The account quickly went viral, gaining over 15k followers. A small fandom has been established around the account, and multiple fan accounts have been created, some examples being “Deer Park Fire Department” and “Deer Park EMS”.

When asking X for a comment on the matter, they simply responded “Go to hell”.