If a researcher who covers the far-right is being impersonated, doesn’t it make sense to give her a single verified profile, so anything not from that profile can be assumed to be an impersonation? I’m not sure what’s hard to understand about that.
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I don't find her being harassed funny, and I wish it to end. It's the incongruity between the described scale of the problem (Nazis) and described scale of solution (a Twitter checkmark) which struck me as silly. But I will re-think about whether this was wrong to find silly.
1/2 It’s a pretty logical solution— she was being impersonated by a hate group, so she wanted her account verified. This is literally what checkmark verification was invented for, Sridhar. Gwen receives rape and death threats regularly from the hate groups she covers.
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2/2 I’m not sure why you found this funny or silly, or why you’re avoiding my question about what “different audience” would find this funny. If you’d like to know more about the harassment Gwen receives, see here.https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-proud-boys-attempt-to-menace-critic-with-late-night-threat …
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Are you saying the check mark will stop the harassment or the impersonation? Or are you simply saying the extent of harassment makes it tasteless to mock the request for a check mark?
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