Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in the town

Operation Bluebird, led by former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates, is launching “Twitter.now,” a paid-access social platform that uses an AI system called VERA to assign trust scores, display claim sources, and let users filter content by desired credibility thresholds. The service is in testing, costs $20 for early access, and plans a VERA 2.0 upgrade that will let users view only posts above a self-set trust-score level.