The approach seems to be intended to alleviate some of the concerns expressed against Musk’s concept for Twitter Blue and verification. Paying for verification, in particular, might allow fraudsters and impersonators to take over discussions and propagate disinformation. Crawford isn’t the only Twitter CEO to speak out about the problems. Twitter’s head of integrity, Yoel Roth, has also said that the company wants to “increase proactive examination of Blue Verified accounts that exhibit indicators of impersonating another user.” Elon Musk also said that Twitter will immediately delete any impersonators after a lot of users changed their identities to Elon Musk in order to make a point about his ambitions.
Of course, the new “official” designations sound a lot like… Twitter’s current verification system, which Musk and others have attacked as being unjust. Furthermore, the fact that it would only be supplied to “chosen” accounts decided by Twitter suggests that the business will once again make a judgement about whether accounts are “notable,” which has been condemned by Twitter executives, including Roth.
