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WTAF America? @ratgrrl@mstdn.social@danyork @Techmeme @pluralistic
Cool how he actually refers to the payments as "protection" money:
"Subscribers will receive 'extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you,' Mr. Zuckerberg said." (From the NYT article}
Nice account you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it...
Corollary: How hard do they work at *ending* the threat if the reason you are paying them is *because* of the threat
MastodonDan York (@danyork@mastodon.social)And so Meta steps further down the “Enshittification”[1] cycle to abuse its existing business customers who it has locked in.. in an attempt to extract more revenue…
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/19/business/meta-facebook-instagram-verified-accounts.html
Tip @Techmeme@techhub.social
[1] Cory Doctorow’s (@pluralistic@mamot.fr ) brilliant essay on how social platforms die -
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/