Posted on 11/11/22
| News Source: WMAR2NEWS
Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Company apologized to customers who got bad information from a fake Twitter account.
An account that featured Eli Lily's name and logo posted that insulin is now being offered for free. The account had a blue Twitter verification checkmark, which was given out to subscribers who paid $8 for the company's new subscription service.
The tweet received thousands of retweets before it disappeared.
"We apologize to those who have been served a misleading message from a fake Lilly account," Eli Lilly said in a tweet from its actual account, which now has an "official" checkmark in addition to the blue verified checkmark.
The drugmaker also referred people searching for lower-cost insulin to its program that offers the drug for $35 a month.