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Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation
- hunglee2 3y agoleaving aside the veracity of the claims made in the article, what we have here is a self appointed verifier criticising the claims another self appointed verifier, surely we can see the problem here
- bitsinthesky 3y agoWhile theoretically interesting, in practice there is no confusion between a professional journalist operating under the brand of the BBC, and anonymous twitter users with a spare $8/month.
- gus_massa 3y agoIn a many scientific news, it's better the coverage from a random weirdo in WordPress than the cut&paste job done by serious journalist. (But sometimes, the weirdo is just posting a ridiculous rewrite of the physics law. YMMV.)
- dave4420 3y agoSurely it would be more of a problem if they ignored each other?
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoIs Twitter Blue claming to be verifying anything other than the subscription payment? edit: surprisingly is it: > All Twitter Blue features will be available immediately except the blue checkmark, which will appear on eligible profiles after a review to ensure subscribed accounts meet all eligibility criteria. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue