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Allowing people to suddenly buy a symbol that used to mean the source could be trusted (at least more than now)… what could go wrong

Did it ever mean they could be trusted though? I think it’s healthy for everyone to distrust any and all tweets.

In terms of factual information, no; in terms of identity verification, most could be trusted.

The person behind the checkmark was a real person/entity and whatever they said, true or disinformation - they owned it. That is the difference.

If Candice Owens had said something detestable, at least I knew that I was being triggered by the actual troll.