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Can journalists ethically quote twitter in articles if people are unverified? (Assuming they’re trying to attribute to a real person)
by mikkergp 4y ago
Can journalists ethically quote twitter in articles if people are unverified? (Assuming they’re trying to attribute to a real person)
- anshumankmr 4y agoIf it's someone famous who hasn't "verified" themselves OR someone who says they are a certain famous person who wasn't previously on Twitter, then it would be best to contact their PR rep going forward to be really 100% sure.
- wlll 4y agoYes and no, it depends whether you mean verified as in "Twitter verified" or verified as in "the journalist verified this is the genuine person". Their job is to verify who it is that they're quoting. Having a blue tick (then and now) doesn't guarantee that the twitter account is genuine, but there are other ways to check this stuff.
- anshumankmr 4y agoOr even if it was authentic, there's no way even back then to be sure if it was the person really tweeting. (ie like the Ted Cruz controversy with the p*rn account)