Some context on the Twitter blue badge and verification, which needs a complete reboothttps://twitter.com/kayvz/status/1019336825049997312 …
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If badging/de-badging is conflated with endorsement, then just de-badge everyone and start over with a less-broken system.
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I believe that would be even more broken. Despite the issues, the badge does verify that it is who it says it is. The amplification the product gives the badge is the issue.
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Per the email, it was in a known “not ideal” state before the pause. Does the “not ideal” part mean “we messed up and verified Nazis”? If yes de-badging with a “this was an error and we’ve paused Bluecheck until we can address the circumstances that led to this” would work here.pic.twitter.com/umzB80fBDQ
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Not sure if I follow the question correctly so let me know if I misunderstand. There were 2 pauses. First, accounts were verified that shouldn't have been, so we paused accepting verification applications through the public application. Policy+product changes were needed to fix
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@kayvz's internal email is about the 2nd pause which pauses internal work on that fix. So the mess up where accounts should never have been verified happened before the 1st pause. Now with an internal pause we are in a less bad state, but still a not good state. -
I should say "Now with an internal pause on work, we are STILL in a bad state, but it's less bad than before the 1st pause".
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I remember the first pause, the verification of the Nazi group happened after it. That means they didn’t apply for verification, someone did that proactively, knowing that the program is in a bad state and exactly what verification conveys. *That* is a problem to say the least.
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This seems like a really clear-cut easy state in that Twitter should de-badge white supremacist groups because it doesn’t endorse them. So like literally one 15 minute meeting and someone going into your admin portal and doing it. Thoughts?
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Somehow, abusers & nazis remain—& keep getting—
@verified while their victims, who are disproportionately women & PoC, don’t—even when they’re forced to become public figures. If not these women
, who gets access to being ‘ad hoc’ @verified,@kayvz?https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/928696702252433408?s=21 … -
If Twitter is fast enough to recommend following the accused famous man as an alternative to the victim, seems like it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to also give
@verified status to the victims your algorithms have already connected them to?https://twitter.com/dearsarah/status/1016774483279937536?s=21 …
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You shouldn’t have de-badged in the first place, that’s what created the whole perception... because it’s true. You made badges an endorsement when you took it away from Milo and made the rankings show badged users above everyone else. Two missteps.
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Jack, do you actually realize that you are saying Twitter will only enforce violations FOR NAZI GROUPS *if it happens*? Can you please explain how Nazism is not a violation of this: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/abusive-profile … ?
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