The Bird is Freed

Tapate50 said:
skin in the game may help some aspects of it.
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Don’t take this as me caring about the plight of the blue checkmark holders, but I don’t agree with you on this. Having skin in the game really just turns into a question of whether or not you want to spend money for the honor of a checkmark, not anything to do with the content you post once you do. If I were to have any concern with the practice, it’s that for a while there will be fake news running rampant due to the trust associated with a verified account. It’s not a universal thing, but there are certainly segments who will be more trusting of a verified account than an unverified account.
 
mqt said:
Don’t take this as me caring about the plight of the blue checkmark holders, but I don’t agree with you on this. Having skin in the game really just turns into a question of whether or not you want to spend money for the honor of a checkmark, not anything to do with the content you post once you do. If I were to have any concern with the practice, it’s that for a while there will be fake news running rampant due to the trust associated with a verified account. It’s not a universal thing, but there are certainly segments who will be more trusting of a verified account than an unverified account.
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You don't believe this is happening already?
 
Tapate50 said:
You don't believe this is happening already?
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I think it’s happening now, but can get quite a bit worse in the early days of this change if literally anybody can be verified for $20. Have a blog about how JFK Jr. is still alive and secretly the shadow President? Or perhaps a site dedicated to exposing that Donald Trump is the anti-Christ and the world is ending in a year? Pay $20 and you’ll have the veneer of respectability until people wise up.

I think to the sports world in particular with this. Think of all the chaos each free agency with fake Wojs and Schefters reporting major signings and looking to see if it’s a verified account.

To be clear, I don’t care. It’s on the individual reader to validate what they’re reading. This has no effect on my life, and if Twitter can make some money on people wanting a piece of flair, that’s their right.
 
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What do you mean how are these alive?

Who the hell are you to tell anyone what to believe?
 
thethe said:
What do you mean how are these alive?

Who the hell are you to tell anyone what to believe?
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I’m not telling anybody what to believe. But even if major publications get it wrong, there’s certainly a difference between journalists researching a news story and some guy posting his fever dreams about lizard people in a Wordpress blog. The latter calling himself an independent journalist and having a blue check is likely to increase his reach if people don’t think about it enough.
 
mqt said:
I’m not telling anybody what to believe. But even if major publications get it wrong, there’s certainly a difference between journalists researching a news story and some guy posting his fever dreams about lizard people in a Wordpress blog. The latter calling himself an independent journalist and having a blue check is likely to increase his reach if people don’t think about it enough.
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Is there a difference?

Russian disinformation laptop comes to mind that was pretty impactful. But sure - some loser in their moms basement talking about lizard people is the real problem!!
 
The blue check mark subscription seems a bit silly, but in general I support anything that moves us away from a dependency on advertisers.

I’m curious what would happen to Twitter if they charged users a couple bucks a month. I’d probably pay for it.
 
It’s easier to mock and ignore the truth.

Anyone believing anything the establishment releases as the “truth” is a sucker.
 
The outright panic from leftists that their preferred ideology is not running a communication platform has been really enlightening to watch.

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