taylorlorenz,
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social avatar

Some of the most viral misinformation on Twitter is posted by Twitter blue subscribers who pay for their content to be promoted to other users https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66113460

ClintonAnderson,

@taylorlorenz If you're willing to believe anything you read on Social Media, you deserve whatever happens to you......

radio,

@taylorlorenz What is misinformation? Did anyone try posting the evidence that Government of #Ukraine tweeted greetings on Bandera's birthday: the request from Poland to remove it was sure cleaned off of #Mastodon with record hast. Oh you can't find things of #Mastodon well someone does, really quickly, and removes things, like #BDS for example, though you probably don't know what it means, just like all the censors except for their boss.

Joelsef,

@taylorlorenz Elon must be so proud of himself.

marci,

@taylorlorenz didn't we see this coming, the check itself is now misinformation.

resing,

@taylorlorenz great reporting from @BBCWorld stop misinformation 🛑🤥

Justifier2873,

@taylorlorenz Almost as if people with money to spend on such things dont have debt or something. Do they need a "how to unsubscribe from services" article generated by AI?

kyler1k,

@taylorlorenz I see blue checkmarks denying evolution or the moon landing on the daily so no one should be listening to their news on the war

zazaserty,

@taylorlorenz Damn Elon... you made it!!! Twitter is agonizing at this point.

wadewainio,
@wadewainio@mastodon.social avatar

@taylorlorenz Every single tweet they send out is potentially exposed to millions of people.

json23,

@taylorlorenz ‘verified user’ and ‘promoted content’ used to be two different fields. He merged them into one. Just an irrational technical mistake.

Cissely,

@taylorlorenz Ugh...Twitter's become a joke.😑

Edwardtaaffe,

@taylorlorenz

HD anyone seen BBC verify contradict disinformation that made Russia look bad?
I haven't and it certainly speaks to me, but please let me know if I've just been missing it.

Realworldrj,

@taylorlorenz whats “twitter”?

SmartmanApps,
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ecoscore,
@ecoscore@aus.social avatar

@taylorlorenz #Elon you didn't really think this through did you.
How are you going to persuade people to go to #Mars on your #Starship after you have proved you can discombobulate a perfectly healthy corporation here on Earth?

jpwkeeper,

@taylorlorenz Correct. By changing blue checks to be purely subscription based, Musk was trying to monetize the sock puppet industry.

westview,

@taylorlorenz A tweep on twitter that posted that article and was swarmed by Blue Checks doing everything from defending their consequence free 'free speech' to calling the BBC and the journalist who tweeted lots of colourful names. It hit its target on the nose. Elon is attempting to shepard opinion toward his pen. Zucks new Threads will be worse, I'd bet.

franchesko,

@taylorlorenz In other news: Water – is wet.

But no, seriously, everybody saw this coming.

mademetrograd,

@taylorlorenz контр страйкпа

deborahh,

@taylorlorenz at $8/month that's a good deal, for the mishinformers :-(

jeffmcneill,
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E_Nonymouse, (edited )

@taylorlorenz The issue not strictly twitter related. There are dozens of fake/shadow accounts on various platforms held by both officials as well as paid international shills of hostile foreign governments who are being directly or indirectly compensated by organizations such as the chinese government and Putin's regime.
Some of them have made appearances on live Russian & Chinese government broadcasts..
Elon took over twitter and stopped tagging them as such, no honesty there at all.

URBANI,

What's Twitter?
@taylorlorenz

Landrin201,

@taylorlorenz literally everyone saw this coming. It was an integral step in making Twitter a useless platform full of nazis.

thaivinh,

@taylorlorenz Can buy Twitter blue now so it's not really reliable

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