NEW: As part of his Twitter takeover, Elon Musk has laid off many employees who were charged with managing the midterm elections on the platform, sources told Forbes.
to receive a blue checkmark next to their name. According to documents viewed by the New York Times, the company has no current plans for a verification measure that would ensure that subscribers are who they say they are, a process crucial to preventing impersonation, especially for high-profile users. Users who are already verified won’t lose their checkmark for months, reports say.
While Twitter has a relatively small audience of approximately 250 million compared to Meta’s social media platforms, which boast over a billion users each, it has an outsized influence on politics and news.that Twitter has been the biggest driver of registrations through social media this election cycle.
Twitter’s new management made deep cuts across the entire company. Members of the company’s curation team, which was “There are really pernicious forces happening on the platform that have a real material effect and the harm associated with them can extend off the platform,” said Edward Perez, who formerly led the product team that included Twitter’s civic integrity operation. “I’m not convinced Elon Musk fully understands that.”
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