Elon Musk Officially Announces Controversial Twitter Decision
Nothing “controversial” about it.
Parody accounts attempting to dupe (people) into believing fake news has been a big thing on the internet for several years now.
So what is twitter gonna do about it?
Twitter owner Elon Musk announced on Sunday night that any accounts impersonating someone else without clearly specifying parody will be banned.
“Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended,” he announced.
So all those accounts claiming to be a celebrity, politicians, etc. but are not, and instead of stating their are a parody account (to get laughs) but to mislead others with fake news and misinformation, will be BANNED.
I see nothing wrong with that. People on the left, in the center, and on the right have all called for the banning of such obvious fake/misinformation.
“Previously, we issued a warning before suspension, but now that we are rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning. This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue.”
“Any name change at all will cause temporary loss of verified checkmark.”
OF course it should. Why would someone, after getting verified, would deliberately un-verify themselves?
This is a controversial decision, of course, but it should help (everyone) when it comes to not falling for the occasional fake news.
Guess all those activists pretending to be journalists will now have to report actual news, and not fake news, misinformation, etc.
I can see why those whose jobs have been to push fake news/misinformation in the legacy media would find it “controversial”.
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