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seydor on April 1, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm

Followed users will still show

But i agree it is a bad idea. The worst actors have money to buy the blue marks of an army of accounts.

This is basically making it easier for authoritarian governments to abuse it

dazc on April 1, 2023 [–]

Like that wasn't already happening?

seydor on April 1, 2023 | [–]

not with blue marks

dazc on April 1, 2023 | | [–]

I'm not in the US

seydor on April 1, 2023 | | [–]

It's actually non-US autharitarian governments that the biggest abusers, using social media against their own people

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/13/facebook-...

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