I'm not paying them a dime for my verification. If they don't think verification is of knowing me as me is valuable, fuck it. Thirdly, when you think about the blue check thing, if I don't pay for it, someone else will try to pay for it and probably will be an asshole and they'll think it's me. It makes their service shittier. What I'm getting out of it is I'm addicted to it and I like getting the news and I like certain people. But where I was headed with this care is that if you have, if these are part of your professional responsibility across a number of industries, we have to express our viewpoint because
From a misinformation scandal to a so-called trolling campaign, Kara and Scott discuss the first few days of Elon Musk's Twitter. Also, Apple beat earnings expectations, but how long can it depend on iPhone sales? Mark Zuckerberg will testify in a case brought by the FTC, and Lula da Silva takes back the Brazilian presidency. Friend of Pivot Margaret Sullivan talks about the state of journalism and her new book, Newsroom Confidential.
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