{"id":7991,"date":"2022-11-21T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/verified-anti-vax-accounts-proliferate-as-twitter-struggles-to-police-content\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T10:40:04","slug":"verified-anti-vax-accounts-proliferate-as-twitter-struggles-to-police-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/verified-anti-vax-accounts-proliferate-as-twitter-struggles-to-police-content\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Verified\u2019 anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Platform\u2019s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation<\/p>\n<p>As the troubled social media platform Twitter rolled out a paid verification system and laid off thousands of content moderators, health misinformation accounts on the social network began pushing their messages to a wider audience than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Under Elon Musk\u2019s new direction for Twitter, several anti-vaccine accounts with tens of thousands of followers are now verified by paying $7.99 a month for Twitter Blue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/21\/twitter-anti-vax-health-misinformation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3ad91dc4e72eea77dd5f118a662e123519551da3\/0_246_4897_2937\/master\/4897.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1d369cd8dad471c9fbca93903967f62c\" title=\"\u2018Verified\u2019 anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content\" \/>Platform\u2019s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation<br \/>\nAs the troubled social media platform Twitter rolled out a paid verification system and laid off thousands of content moderators, health misinformation accounts on the social network began pushing their messages to a wider audience than ever.<br \/>\nUnder Elon Musk\u2019s new direction for Twitter, several anti-vaccine accounts with tens of thousands of followers are now verified by paying $7.99 a month for Twitter Blue. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platform\u2019s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation As the troubled social media platform Twitter rolled out a paid verification system and laid off thousands of content moderators, health misinformation accounts on the social network began pushing their messages to a wider audience than ever. Under &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/verified-anti-vax-accounts-proliferate-as-twitter-struggles-to-police-content\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Verified\u2019 anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}