Twitter 2.0 is signal boosting Taliban 2.0 through Blue subscriptions
sit right with a website trying to be the"digital town square"? Unless users want it to be a town square with a corpse hanging in the corner, that is.
We all must be familiar with Twitter Blue by now. In an attempt to boost revenue, having chased advertisers away in their droves , the company began charging users $8 monthly for a coveted blue tick, which used to indicate that an account was who it said it was. They were difficult to get. Now anyone can have one, it's lost all meaning, and Twitter has had to roll out a bunch of other colored ticks anyway to fill the gap left by the old verification function. The purpose of the subscription tick is that you"rocket to the top replies, mentions and search" and see"half" the ads among other features. But the main thing is that you, which is the literal opposite of free speech.
Yesterday the BBC reported:"At least two Taliban officials and four prominent supporters in Afghanistan are currently using the checkmarks." The British news organization pointed to the accounts of
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