Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers

Posted on November 10, 2022November 10, 2022 by Jason Gulledge

Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems.

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Trump says he expects to be arrested Tuesday —

The thing I fear is that this will spark another January 6, or worse.

SVB attempts to blame remote work for bank failure —

SVB desperately looking for a scapegoat here other than "we ignored sound banking norms"

December 6th, 2022

Apple expands Self Service Repair to iPhone and MacBook users in Europe —

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November 27th, 2022

Here’s Proof Hate Speech Is More Viral on Elon Musk’s Twitter — Researchers monitoring a “firehose” of public tweets found signs of increasing toxicity—before Elon Musk reversed bans on Trump and other divisive figures.

November 10th, 2022

Elon Musk's Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers — Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems.

November 8th, 2022

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November 2nd, 2022

Rolex Deepsea Challenge 2022: the Deepest Diver You Can Buy — Capable of operating almost 7 miles down, the titanium Deepsea Challenge takes the watch world’s battle for diver supremacy to new depths.

November 1st, 2022

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October 31st, 2022

Drew Barrymore reveals — that she believed E.T. was real as a kid

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October 29th, 2022

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October 28th, 2022

Welcome to hell, Elon — Nilay Patel points out the obvious and inevitable conflict between Elon's dreams and Twitter's reality.

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September 30th, 2022

Is Musk Ready for Twitter? — In one example, he said he would ban spam and bot armies but leave up all content that was "legal", which is a contradiction.

September 27th, 2022

Cloudflare opensourced! — workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime. You can use it for local development and testing. This is amazing.

July 14th, 2022

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