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Elon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk. (www.mirror.co.uk)
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[–] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just like Security can’t stop every spam email, Twitter can’t stop every falsehood on its service. Both should try, though. Twitter has metrics and can put a stop to trending tweets that are clearly disinformation.

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon fired that team the moment he bought Twitter.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They had a method of filtering this out before. That's what verification badges were lol. Now it's just a checkmark saying you're a loser who paid to get boosted on social media, and deserve to get bullied for supporting the alt-right.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It sure was less of a problem before MElon took over.