blue check mark

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Noun

blue check mark (plural blue check marks)

1. (dated, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of blue check.
   • 2019 July 10, Travis View, “How conspiracy theorists taint the justice they seek”, in The Washington Post:

     “Some blue check marks,” he said, in reference to verified users on Twitter, “are trying to take credit for Epstein’s arrest, but I think we all know where the real investigations are coming from . . . The chans are incredible!”

   • 2020, Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again, unnumbered page:

     I think a lot of Democrats around the country imagine a Justice League-style building where all the party players have an office and there is a conference room where Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the presidential candidates, and all your favorite Blue Check Marks on Twitter get together to make strategic decisions.

   • 2020 April 17, Tim Miller, “The Ballad of Clay Travis”, in Gorizont Russian Newspaper, page 13:

     A month later most of us are voluntary detainees in our homes as part of an inspiring— if weird—act of mass solidarity. We are not doing it because «fear porn» made us or because the blue check marks hate Donald Trump.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blue check mark.