No identity verification, & 8 bucks for a verified account?
Get ready for the new Twitter cyber criminal playbook: use stolen credit card to buy verified Twitter account, impersonate real customer support channels, trick users into handing over account details in DM, account takeover.
I keep seeing tweets from the new Twitter team saying the focus will be on "proof-of-humanness" which misses the biggest problem right in front of them: how the heck they're going to verify people, brands, companies, emergency services, and official notices are who they say they are with a reduced workforce (and their AI tools don't work well enough to automate this problem for them). The everyday user isn't concerned with proof-of-humanness, the everyday user just wants their needs met: ie, the everyday user wants to make sure they're tweeting at the real airline team to get their luggage found, and they don't want to get scammed in the process.
@racheltobac For organizations large enough to manage it, having a dedicated Fediverse instance on the org's domain (say, social.aa.com, social.airbnb.com etc) would let a customer treat social media from those accounts like they would emails from aa.com or airbnb.com.
To me that would provide stronger verification than the typical Mastodon ref=me cross-link in the profile.
