Twitter VP Admits: Verification System 'Broken From Top to Bottom'
Source: The Daily Beast
Twitter VP Sinead McSweeney on Tuesday admitted to British lawmakers that the social-media giants verification system is broken from top to bottom as it has repeatedly given the coveted blue tick symbol to far-right hate groups and their leaders. People had been verified who never should have been verified, she told MPs amid questions over how several known white supremacistsincluding British far-right activist Jayda Fransen, whose anti-Muslim propaganda videos were retweeted by President Trumpever received the status symbol. The entire system of verification is now suspended and its being fully reviewed, noted McSweeney, the companys vice president of communications for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. She additionally defended her companys hate-speech filtering process, telling lawmakers, You can clean a street every morning, you cant guarantee its still going to be clean at 10 a.m.
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PSPS
(13,601 posts)Clarity2
(1,009 posts)has taken Russian investment money, it goes without saying that they may be playing both sides of the fence.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)...the Russian trolls & hackers are running everything now.