On Twitter, a Bluecheck is a small blue circle with a white checkmark placed near the screen name of individuals who wish to convey that they are the actual person with that name— chiefly celebrities, public officials or other persons of note. I don't do Twitter, either; but presumably they would have to provide verifiable ID and other personal info to Twitter in order to get the symbol.
Without the symbol, people could (and did) post fake accounts with some other person's name and/or photo and use it make false statements, causing a viral reaction, and taking cooler heads hours, days or never to uncover the actual facts.
Un-bluechecked accountholders tend to be "ordinary" folks who have presumably been using their actual ID such as their cellphone number to sign up for a Twitter account; but people wanting to remain deeply anonymous could have concocted false ID. Actual ID matters when an accountholder does something that makes investigators want to find them; such as committing an online falsehood, livestreaming a crime, or threatening imminent suicide and their online contacts want to send first responders to intervene.
There have been claims of huge numbers of computer-generated fake accounts on both Twitter and Facebook that can be run by propaganda operators to influence opinion, sway campaigns, or otherwise distort true popular opinion. Russia and China have been accused of running "click farms" of fake screen personas to try to influence consumer behavior or voter opinion. surely there are also plenty of such operators in the U.S. and the rest of the First World.
Advertisers pay a sliding scale of rates for exposure to viewers—the more viewers a web site company can promise, the more it can charge advertisers to run ads on its site. Fake online accounts (called "bots") that are generated by massive computer programs serve to inflate the numbers of so-called viewers on a site such as FB or Twitter. A large number of false accounts creates not just a false valuation of a site to advertisers, but also extortionate profits. This issue caused Musk to try to back out of the deal when Twitter balked at verifying its claims of how many of its accounts were real people instead of "bots."
By the way, because there are a large number of bots on a site, I don’t wasnt to imply that they were manufactured by the site itself solely to inflate value. Many or most are probably hackers or click farms wanting to influence opinion; but the actual percentage of fake accounts and their origins can be different on one site than another.
Thank you VERY MUCH!
I sort of knew that “Bots” were fake “people” created by LIEberal scum, but did not realized that the more “Bots” on Twitter or Facebook, the larger the revenue stream was!
I thought “Bots” were only used to generate fake supporters for this or that fake LIEberal LIE/story/scam of the day!
Thanks for clearing it up to me.
Still glad I do not tweet or “do” popular culture!