Who’ll get the last laugh over Musk toying with Twitter’s veracity?
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/elon-musk-twitter-verification-disinformation/
Twitter’s painstakingly layered infosphere looks to be light-speeding back to chaotic noise under new owner Elon Musk. The billionaire is no fan of meritocratic signals nor, it seems, a friend to genuine information — preferring anyone pay him $8/m to have their account on his microblogging social network badged with a check-mark that looks like the old Twitter verification check yet does not involve Musk’s Twitter checking they are who they say they are.
In short, it’s a joke made real.
Who’ll get the last laugh over Musk toying with Twitter’s veracity?
Nov 10, 2022, 7:20pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/elon-musk-twitter-verification-disinformation/
> Twitter’s painstakingly layered infosphere looks to be light-speeding back to chaotic noise under new owner Elon Musk. The billionaire is no fan of meritocratic signals nor, it seems, a friend to genuine information — preferring anyone pay him $8/m to have their account on his microblogging social network badged with a check-mark that looks like the old Twitter verification check yet does not involve Musk’s Twitter checking they are who they say they are.
> In short, it’s a joke made real.