> …it was crack cocaine for narcissistic journalists and media personalities… i think the mess of blue checks now shows that this issue absolutely isn’t limite

> …it was crack cocaine for narcissistic journalists and media personalities… i think the mess of blue checks now shows that this issue absolutely isn’t limited to “journalists and media personalities” social media as a whole has shown us first hand the lengths people will go to in order to seek impressions. it’s pretty common to see regular people lie, manipulate, twist, etc… to get those impressions. in the past, We devised something called journalistic ethics which he expected those with a platform to put a good faith effort to follow those guidelines. this allowed us to make a distinction between signal and noise. of course this wasn’t perfect, nothing ever is. either way, we’ve seen pretty clearly now for quite a while that it isn’t some nefarious plot by former “narcissistic” journalists or whatever—people on every site do this, and people actually pay money for the checks on twitter now lol.