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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by a Verified Twitter User - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
+ | Some {{w|Twitter}} users (such as [https://twitter.com/coldplay Coldplay], or [https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump Donald Trump]) have a verification checkmark next to their name. This checkmark is used to indicate that the user is who they say they are. However, there is some ambiguity in this, as it also seems to be used as a status symbol to indicate notable celebrities. Some even see this as Twitter actively endorsing the user. Twitter recently gave a verification checkmark to {{w|Jason Kessler}}, the organizer of a {{w|Unite_the_Right_rally|recent white supremacist rally}} in Charlottesville, Virginia. This drew attention to Twitter's verification system [https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/11/09/twitter-halts-verification-over-checkmark-charlottesville-rally-organizer/848314001/ so they temporarily suspended it]. | ||
− | The | + | The alt-text comments on the lack of foresight on Twitter's part when implementing the ''verified'' system: as it by design separates users between an in-group and an out-group, it implies endorsement or, at least, favouring of some users to the detriment of others. This in turn automatically creates the twin sets of "people who shouldn't have been verified, but were" and "people who deserve to have been verified, but weren't." As the internet is populated by various large and strongly opinionated groups, neither set will ever be empty. |
− | + | The character depicted is the Twitter CEO {{w|Jack Dorsey}}. | |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | :[A bearded figure, depicting the Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is standing behind a podium with the blue Twitter bird logo.] | ||
− | + | :Jack: Everyone calm down- | |
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− | :Jack: Everyone calm | ||
:Jack: We just need to go figure out how to bestow a global in-or-out status badge on some people, at our discretion, without anyone reading anything into who gets one. | :Jack: We just need to go figure out how to bestow a global in-or-out status badge on some people, at our discretion, without anyone reading anything into who gets one. | ||
:Jack: This should only take a moment. | :Jack: This should only take a moment. |