What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.
The truly tragic thing about this is Twitter was probably a key element of the development of online open source investigation and Bellingcat over the last decade, having a huge impact on multiple fields of work, and this is what we get.
The introduction of Twitter Blue has been so cringe and frustrating, especially as a journalist using Twitter for monitoring and research.
From today, accounts are no longer marked “legacy verified”. Here’s a workaround to see if an account is Blue subscribed ⬇️
Probably the best thing you'll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results 🧵
1/22
THREAD: This type of Twitter account, right here, is among the worst on this platform.
It's a spam account that manipulates the empathy and compassion of users with the sole purpose of getting maximum engagement and building as large an audience as possible.
Let's take a look.
@danlesac Yep. I thought it was superb.
The only problem I had with it was watching it on a plane, which meant the unexpected dildo scene felt like it was on screen for about two hours.
My @SkyNews interview exposing Braverman’s lies is approaching 2 million views.
This is democracy in action.
#BritainIsBetterThanTheTories
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