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Originally that was true, but as Twitter got ever more woke it stopped meaning that and became blurred with endorsement. From Wikipedia: Twitter faced backlash
by nvm0n2 3y ago
Originally that was true, but as Twitter got ever more woke it stopped meaning that and became blurred with endorsement. From Wikipedia:
Twitter faced backlash in November 2017 when it verified the account of Jason Kessler, a neo-Nazi and white supremacist. The backlash forced Twitter to pause its verification program.[9] Several days later, Twitter removed Spencer and Kessler's verification statuses.[10] Likewise, Twitter had removed verification from Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos for violating its policies in January, signaling Twitter verification implied endorsement.
- nerdbert 3y agoFor the majority of readers, for whom I presume getting the latest updates fresh from the lips of renowned neo-Nazis was not a high priority, I don't think this represented a significant drop in the blue check's value. Either you are saying that in fact not having prominent neo-Nazis' content tagged as coming from notable sources was a meaningful problem, or you are making a slippery-slope argument with no clear indication of why we were headed to a problematic part of the slope. In either case it doesn't seem persuasive.
- nvm0n2 3y agoI'm pointing out that simonw's claim about what verification meant wasn't true by the start of the Musk era. Leftists call anyone to the right of themselves a Nazi so your claims about specific individuals are uninteresting.