The new Twitter verification system is absolutely great and not at all ripe for abuse.
It would never allow someone to easily scam gullible people by leveraging parasocial relationships.
Firing 50% of Twitter’s staff was a genius move and will ensure Twitter can’t be abused
It took me less than 25 minutes to set up a fake anonymous Apple ID using a VPN and disposable email, attach a masked debit card to it (with the address being Twitter's HQ), and get a verified account for a prominent figure. Just think what a nation-state or bad actor could do...
The new Twitter verification system is absolutely great and not at all ripe for abuse.
It would never allow someone to easily scam gullible people by leveraging parasocial relationships.
Firing 50% of Twitter’s staff was a genius move and will ensure Twitter can’t be abused
Today's guest on TimcastIRL is Pedro Gonzalez, a fascist journalist who has written about how "white genocide" is real, how Juneteenth "marks the death of the old American nation", and how the neo-nazi Charlottesville murderer James Fields was actually innocent: