Paying verifies.

Obviously, but verification already exists. For your answer to make sense, one needs to assume that there's a non-trivial problem of verified bot accounts.

Is that assumption correct? It seems incredibly wrong to me, but I may be misinformed.

Verification only exists for a small group not the general public.

Ah OK, so you're saying that this will enable an expansion of verification, which will then serve as a solution to the bot issue.