able to get verified. trust for the information on twitter. otherwise what we have is that the sentence to chaos i mean, i treat it like a wire service to the point you just made when there s when there s a breaking news story. i m looking at my twitter account because i want to see what all the news sources are reporting. and i want to see what individuals whose opinion i respect or maybe not respect are saying about it to keep myself informed. what s going to happen to that ability now? i think that ability has gone out the window, at least for the time being. we see some changes being made retrospectively back towards giving some people blue check marks again. however there s also gray check marks, which to no government authorities and those are being , uh, sort of given in a haphazard way to different authorities. many don t have them. um and so, for the time being that wire service sort of use of twitter is kind of going down the drain for you as well as me. i use it that way as
both respond to it. together what do we have? jordan s pop that up blue checks were nothing more than the ultimate vanity plate for the culturally elite. now there s somehow threatened because ordinary folks can get one. i ll go first. dr willie. my response is to say no, it has nothing to do with me as one who had a blue check, resenting, you know common folk. from having a blue check. it s that someone s going to be able to go out and imitate a person with a profile and fraudulently act like they are them. how would you respond to that person? i ll be honest. i always thought there was issues with the blue checkmark system in the sense that it wasn t clear how they were given out that being said it needs to be made more systematic, but not less. what we need is more verification for trusted entities like news organizations , journalists and other entities that are delivering us our news rather than making it this open , open season on blue check marks where anyone can buy it, includi
mean, i regard the guy as a mad genius. i am. i am not a critic of elon musk i his ingenuity is something that i have great admiration for, and i think he makes a wonderful car. but what s his game here? because this seemed also predictable that there would be a revolt against him. did he really think that the $8 revenue or the $1000 from media sources or from businesses that it was going to enhance his bottom line? i m trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. musk s argument was that there was sort of a class based system on twitter where if you were popular, or if you knew someone that you could get a blue check mark, and so he took away that that system, he said. he wanted to make it a system where anyone could get a blue check mark. the problem with that is that in my research, i studied propagandists and people that spread disinformation. what we know is that propagandists are willing to spend a little bit of money to get their their message out there. and so right now what yo
after a rocket built by hi other company spacex, well exploded in midair only minute after lift off but, if you have a hard time feeling bad for billionaires about stuff like this, there i another elon musk fiasco for the past week that you may wan to pay closer attention to yesterday, the social medi site twitter, also owned b musk, they started removing th blue verification check mark for accounts that don t pay monthly subscription twitter s verification syste was another perfect unti yesterday, you could reasonabl believe that the people, o brands, or agencies with the blue check marks were in fac those very people, or brands or agencies they were claiming to be. but here s what happened whe twitter began taking those new york city s official government account tried t reassure followers that they were legit, and shortly after, an imposter account conteste that, saying they were the rea official in new york cit government account the good thing is, tha impostor account, it was tak
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