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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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.
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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1.) Yes, that the verification system was literally created to clear up issues of impersonation. 2.) That when
@RadishHarmers saw a hate group harassing and impersonating a researcher online, his first thought was to mock the researcher for wanting a solution. - 3 more replies
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