Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoElon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk.www.mirror.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down16
arrow-up1104arrow-down1external-linkElon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk.www.mirror.co.ukFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-square👁️👄👁️@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThey had a method of filtering this out before. That’s what verification badges were lol. Now it’s just a checkmark saying you’re a loser who paid to get boosted on social media, and deserve to get bullied for supporting the alt-right.
They had a method of filtering this out before. That’s what verification badges were lol. Now it’s just a checkmark saying you’re a loser who paid to get boosted on social media, and deserve to get bullied for supporting the alt-right.
Terrible.