Election administrators across the US are struggling to figure out how to respond after Elon Musk threw Twitter's verification service into disarray.
Twitter finally removed its legacy verification badges from users' accounts.used to be easy. The account for the city commissioners who run elections, @phillyvotes, was the only one carrying a blue check mark, a sign of authenticity.overhauled its verification service last month, the check mark has disappeared. That’s made it harder to distinguish @phillyvotes from a list of random accounts not run by the elections office but with very similar names.
In this photo illustration, a Twitter logo is displayed on a smartphone with a Verified icon in the background. The policy change quickly opened the door for pranksters to pose convincingly as celebrities, politicians and government entities, which could no longer be identified as authentic. While some impostor accounts were clear jokes, others created confusion.Lindsay Walter, who has alopecia, posted a photo of herself on Twitter after completing the London Marathon, hoping to share her accomplishment on social media, but one user commented, "You like a sick, ugly man.
Election offices in four of the country's five most populous counties — Cook County in Illinois, Harris County in Texas, Maricopa County in Arizona and San Diego County — remain unverified, a Twitter search shows. Maricopa, which includes Phoenix, has been targeted repeatedly by election conspiracy theorists as the most populous and consequential county in one of the most closely divided political battleground states.
In this illustration photo taken on July 18, 2022 Elon Musk's reply Tweet to Parag Agrawal, the CEO of Twitter, showing a poop emoji is displayed on the screen of a smartphone with Musk Twitter page in the background in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris D"Our job is to reinforce public confidence," Bellows told the AP.
Griswold’s office received a gray check mark to maintain trust with voters, but she told the AP she would not buy verification for her personal Twitter account because "it doesn’t carry the same weight" it once did.Twitter restores blue check marks for dead celebrities including Kobe Bryant, Anthony Bourdain
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