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Just like Security can’t stop every spam email, Twitter can’t stop every falsehood on its service. Both should try, though. Twitter has metrics and can put a stop to trending tweets that are clearly disinformation.
Elon fired that team the moment he bought Twitter.
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It sure was less of a problem before MElon took over.
They had a method of filtering this out before. That's what verification badges were lol. Now it's just a checkmark saying you're a loser who paid to get boosted on social media, and deserve to get bullied for supporting the alt-right.
Terrible.