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But now (with Twitter) I can't trust anything I read without double-checking carefully it is not a fake account (and even then I cannot be sure). At least beforehand I was able to trust that Twitter has done the basic KYC.

The Meta implementation therefore seems smarter (depends on gov ID).

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Why did you ever trust anything on twitter without double-checking? Consider how much misinformation you have processed over the years because of too much faith in a platform to disseminate facts over fiction.

I don't think he's talking about the information in the tweets, but the source. If I'm a fan of X and I go find X on twitter, I used to be able to more or less trust that X with a blue checkmark was the twitter account representing X. Before the hilarious shift to the gold marks, it was a lot of sifting through stupid meme accounts.

People were doing verified accounts for my ISP support twitter that day, lol

If we accept the logic that we should not trust anything posted by anyone on Twitter, then Twitter would no longer be a viable source of information whatsoever. Do you see the problem? It is poisoning the well.

Twitter seems like a perfectly reasonable venue to hear EA, computer game company behind Madden 2023, announce that they're working on Madden 2024.

I don't need that information to pass via Bob Woodward for a hard-hitting journalistic enquiry into the truth of the claim.

consider pre Twitter blue:

someone created an account named USEmbassy_SaoTome and that had twitter verification = that was indeed the official account of the US Embassy there.

consider after Twitter Blue

someone creates an account named USEmbassy_Kiribati and has the twitter blue mark. You dont really know this is an official account. anyone can pay for this

PS: this is just hypothetical I dont really know if those embassies exists.

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