Meanwhile in #Muskville
>>Verified Accounts on Musk’s X Spread 74 Percent of Israel-Hamas War Misinformation
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/verified-accounts-elon-musk-x-031239824.html\
Surprise surprise. And timed perfectly for the next round of election rigging (fact and conspiracy)
#Muskvirus #Twitter #X #media #disinformation #misinformation #propaganda
@drmike I mean this is how we should always have been treating verified accounts, with lots of skepticism, not believing them.
So really I see this as an improvement.
Verified accounts always have spread misinformation and they always will. Maybe it's worth listening to them or not, but it's never worth trusting them.
Verified accounts just means it looks like it's coming from a human. But humans lie, or humans get the story wrong. So the verification was never a reason to trust what was being posted.
So great! We are figuring out not to trust these people that we never should have been trusting in the first place!
@drmike Right, but that's my point, just because you know who the person is, that doesn't mean what they're saying is right.
Great, I know this line is being spouted by a politician! Doesn't mean the first thing about whether the politician is being honest or not. Or knows what they're talking about.
That sort of thinking descends into ad hominem judgment.
Wonderful, isn't it?
So pls, You do you!
For me the welcome mat being laid out for Nazis, haters, trolls, & anyone else who pays for "the badge" is bad enough.
Removing any/all checks on hate speech by humans (while whining about bots) and saying "we're all free, now have fun" while allowing - truly inviting/inciting - hate-filled echo chambers rife with lies & shouting & bullying & #disinformation unchecked...
Many still value #truth
Many love(d) #Twitter.
'Choice is good'.☮️
@drmike you seem to be really obsessed with Nazis here. That sounds like something you ought to take up with your therapist.
But it's not reality.
What you're describing is not at all what is happening over on the other platform. You're kind of going kind of nutso with your obsession there.
Again, have a chat with your therapist about that.
@volkris
What WAS being verified was authenticity of the individual posting. So a politician or superstar athlete, rock star, or whomever, was 100%, the actual person. Full stop. Easy to do & gold standard so the celebrity class could interact with fans and 'the masses' -without impersonation.
Agree, disagree, love, hate, they were who they said. Full stop.
That was blown apart by #MuskVirus & his "free speech occasionalist" crusade.
Removed #truth checks & moderation too. Lose-lose. :(