#Bluesky to implement stricter verification policies
May introduce #bluecheck marks
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/bluesky-to-implement-stricter-verification-policies-may-introduce-blue-check-marks/ar-AA1va0HR?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=a634642ceeb84641ab025b24c6ab8a4f&ei=22
X’s blue checkmarks are deceptive, rules EU
The European Union has warned X its blue checkmark verification system violates rules under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, finding it to be deceptive for users and against established industry practices. Following its investigation, the EU also found X is failing to comply with transparency obligations
#europe #EU #DSA #socialmedia #verification #advertising #bluecheck #twitter #technology #x #tech
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/12/24197028/x-blue-checkmarks-deceptive-eu-dsa-formal-warning
The #bluecheck went from exclusive badge to forced brand under #ElonMusk. Now #X (formerly #Twitter) is eliminating the choice for users to hide their paid verification status.
https://gadgetbond.com/twitter-x-premium-users-blue-checkmark-no-hide/
X will no longer allow users to hide their Premium blue check, even if they didn't want it in the first place.
The new policy comes after users with a high number of followers were automatically upgraded to Premium for free, says @theverge
"Once a status symbol, the blue check lost some of its luster after X shifted to a paid verification system under Elon Musk’s ownership."
"That’s not verification. It’s also not valuable. It’s just designed to hide Musk’s incompetence in managing the platform, while (once again) undermining the whole “pay me for this site I’m making worse day by day” business model that #Musk keeps pushing."
#bluecheck
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/05/elon-recreates-the-lords-peasants-bluecheck-system-he-hated-but-makes-sure-its-even-dumber/
This is why paid verification is stupid. No profile picture but has a blue check. #twitter #bluecheck
@manitius
IMAGINE PAYING FOR PEOPLE TO SEE YOUR POSTS ON A SOCIAL NETWORK!! 
Imagine paying money to be able to edit your own posts. 
Imagine paying money to have 1000 (or even 500) characters in a post.
@GottaLaff It’s kind of funny how this is being portrayed by the #BlueCheck #Ignorati on #SpaceKarens #Hellsite as “CO SOS puts #trump on ballot unless #SCOTUS overrules.”
And by funny I mean pathetic.
Really funny how the people who hated the pre-Elon blue checks ended up becoming the new blue checks, and now all of their own shit can be used against them.
Musk is taking fake advertiser money to place ads that use his own name and face to falsely endorse their product, and burdening the fact-checking community with annotating it.
I can't even.
EN: I'm dummy. I've just got why on his own platform this silly Elon is using bot farms with blue checks that forces with tweets. LOL
Source: https://twitter.com/med_goblin/status/1708693150997381460
#Musk’s X revokes paid #bluecheck from #UnitedAutoWorkers after strike called. ‘…#Tesla pays lower wages than the Big Three automakers currently faced with striking workers… Musk's stake in the strike could go beyond wage questions... #UAW's negotiations also seek to expand benefits for union workers involved "in the production of electric vehicles & the batteries…to power them," The Intercept…& those conversations could also impact Tesla operations.’ | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-x-revokes-paid-blue-check-from-united-auto-workers-after-strike-called/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Blue check Twitter (X) subscribers will be required to submit their photos and a photo of a government issued ID to an Israeli company with ties to Israeli Intelligence.
After this, every Twitter blue check mark should be seen as a little target symbol for any scammer who is looking for the world's most gullible person.
@auschwitzmuseum wrote an informative statement on why #Elon removing the #Block feature from #Twitter is a terrible idea which will disproportionately affect persecuted groups, especially those the #Bluecheck #fascists don't like, such as scientists, ethnic minorities, nonwhites, non-christian religious groups, etc.
Twitter threads may soon become vast seas of Bluechecks dumping their #HateSpeech on everyone they want to oppress, drowning out all discourse. It's a #hellsite, #SocialMedia controlled by the most hateful people on the internet.
Yet another nail in the coffin of Twitter.
https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1692582661070438770
Taking the #BlueCheck out of my name on here.
It seemed humorous and ironic when I added it, but it's beginning to feel like ironically wearing a #Swastika after seeing seas of bluechecks on #Twitter promoting Putinism, calling for the deaths of minorities, and otherwise being horrible, anti-humanitarians...
About half of people in the US support #Ukraine, with that number even higher when you only look at people connected enough to actually have information on the situation.
Scrolling through #VolodymyrZelenskyy / #Zelenskyy 's #Twitter timeline, however, one would think there was zero support and the #Biden admin was giving them old military equipment against the will of his own people.
This is an example of "#BlueCheck #Fascism", where a politically polarizing figure has asked his followers to give him money in exchange for reach, and the people who are willing to give him money are the worst people on the site, whose horrible takes would otherwise be ignored as uninformed, deplorable, or insane. Bolstered to the top of the comments, they make Putinist propaganda look like normal viewpoints.
This is why Twitter is a #Hellsite, this is why Corporate #SocialMedia doesn't work, this is why #Mastodon exists, and why #Fediverse MUST supplant its alternatives for the good of humanity.
#ElonMusk’s #X can’t send Blue subscribers their ad revenue-sharing payouts on time
Friday night is a good time to announce you’re not paying your bills.
"That’s not exactly what you’d want to hear from a program touting itself as “part of our effort to help people earn a living directly on X,” and the key to Elon Musk’s X dream for an app that handles #banking, stock trading, and other vital financial features."
#TwitterTakeover #BlueCheck #TwitterBlue #Twitter
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23820859/x-twitter-ad-sharing-payment-unpaid-delay-elon-musk
