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Twitter Chaos

From the BBC Twitter chaos after wave of blue tick impersonations - the fundamental problem is concentrating the problem of reputation in one central place. Also Twitter’s primary concern with reputation is its own and it is only concerned about the damage to the reputation of its users because the reflects on it.

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re: Twitter Chaos
The article talks about police and emergency services using Twitter and the possible problems if those were forged accounts. The ThamesVP Twitter account is only trustworthy if already known as the trust in Twitter is essentially 'flat' or should be, but much harder to masquerade an account of thamesvalley.police.uk in the Fediverse as that inherits trust from police.uk - https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2021/01/12/it-is-good-to-be-a-tree/