{"id":19583,"date":"2017-11-17T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T19:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19583"},"modified":"2017-11-17T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T19:23:40","slug":"twitters-verified-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/twitters-verified-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter&rsquo;s Verified Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/continuations.com\/post\/167590547360\/twitters-verified-mess\">Albert Wenger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/continuations.com\/post\/167590547360\/twitters-verified-mess\">\n<p>The net result of all of these mistakes was that the verified checkmark became an &ldquo;official Twitter&rdquo; badge. Instead of simply indicating something about the account&rsquo;s identity it became a stamp of approval.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Just now Twitter has announced a further doubling down on this ridiculously untenable position. Twitter will now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/15\/16658600\/twitter-verification-badge-rules-harassment\">deverify accounts that violate its harassment rules<\/a>. This is a terrible idea for two reasons: First, it puts Twitter deeper into content policing in a way that&rsquo;s completely unmanageable (e.g., what about the account of someone who is well behaved on Twitter but awful off-Twitter?). Second, it defeats the original purpose of verification. Is an account not verified because it is an impostor or because Twitter deverified it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Wenger: The net result of all of these mistakes was that the verified checkmark became an &ldquo;official Twitter&rdquo; badge. Instead of simply indicating something about the account&rsquo;s identity it became a stamp of approval. [&#8230;] Just now Twitter has announced a further doubling down on this ridiculously untenable position. Twitter will now deverify accounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,96],"class_list":["post-19583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-twitter","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19584,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions\/19584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}