Twitter's new rules are amplifying radical right voices on the platform.
With the system of paid badges, the concentration of verified users in this ideological spectrum jumped from 0.7% to 15.4%, a growth of 20-fold.
These accounts either paid for the badge or obtained it through a non-transparent redistribution by Elon Musk's company.
Specifically among influencers of the political debate in Brazil, profiles with badges in this mostly right-wing group now represent 15.5% of the total verified – before, they were 5.9%.
On the other hand, the left and center had greater relevance in the network and lost their verified profiles in this new arrangement, in a combination of low adherence to the paid plan and removal of old badges.
The analysis was carried out by DeltaFolha using the Ideological GPS, a tool that positions the network's main public figures and their followers in the ideological spectrum.
Translated by Cassy Dias