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It introduced verification badges after a baseball manager sued the platform for helping someone impersonate him, and the result was a system that allowed users to easily check the authenticity of accounts.

That led her into the biggest mistake of her career, her attempt to impersonate a progressive in the campaign for the 2020 presidential nomination.

It has terms of service which ban using the platform to "impersonate any person or entity" and in its "safety centre" the company says its guiding principle is that its "product should never produce responses that are likely to harm users or others".

One person even brought Halsey's viral "The Greatest Impersonator" homage to Britney Spears into the mix, writing, "I hope she doesn’t impersonate Cynthia Erivo because that would be just deeply hurtful, like erasing her."

In a homage to some of the greatest musicians of all time, the pop star has taken it upon herself to emulate them — or in this case, impersonate them.