You know, Brietbart can be garbage too. I’m no fan of Twitter, but this is not accurate:
“signaling endorsement of their messages by the company”
The blue check marks do NOT indicate that Twitter or anyone else endorses what the person tweets. It simply means that Twitter has taken extra steps to verify that the account is being run by who it claims to be. I know because I tried to get verified. It’s not easy.
Get your facts straight.
Read the article and read the threats.
Twitter has a history of banning free speech supposedly because of threats of violence.
You get upset about a tiny part of the article about what twitter supposedly mean by a blue check mark.
You ignore the hypocrisy on twitter and the threats.
Read the article and learn something.
I do not believe that twitter dispassionately allows users to have blue checks.
They place the blue checks on those they ideologically prefer.
I think Breitbart is largely correct.
You are correct.
What I would say, however, is that they remove it if you are a controversial rightist, but not if you are a controversial leftist.
Milo (not a true conservative, but very controversial) lost his, did he not? There was not a sudden doubt that Milo was who he said he was. Milo was punished.
Will any of these lose their blue checks? I suspect not.