{"id":9755,"date":"2023-04-24T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/far-right-britain-first-party-given-twitter-gold-tick\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T18:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:39:12","slug":"far-right-britain-first-party-given-twitter-gold-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/far-right-britain-first-party-given-twitter-gold-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right Britain First party given Twitter gold tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verification mark granted to account that was suspended in 2017 but reinstated following takeover by Elon Musk last year<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has given a gold tick to Britain First, the far right political organisation, after a shake-up of its verification system under new owner Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s leader, Paul Golding, has also received a blue tick for his account, which means that his posts will be boosted in conversations and will be ranked higher in user searches. Golding was jailed in 2018 for religiously aggravated harassment.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/24\/far-right-britain-first-twitter-gold-tick\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aadb99e85c2b4d2a395399ed5b5263609e5602bc\/0_156_4140_2483\/master\/4140.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e90af1a20ae3f1e93f6cec13a393818a\" title=\"Far-right Britain First party given Twitter gold tick\" \/>Verification mark granted to account that was suspended in 2017 but reinstated following takeover by Elon Musk last year<br \/>\nTwitter has given a gold tick to Britain First, the far right political organisation, after a shake-up of its verification system under new owner Elon Musk.<br \/>\nThe party\u2019s leader, Paul Golding, has also received a blue tick for his account, which means that his posts will be boosted in conversations and will be ranked higher in user searches. Golding was jailed in 2018 for religiously aggravated harassment. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verification mark granted to account that was suspended in 2017 but reinstated following takeover by Elon Musk last year Twitter has given a gold tick to Britain First, the far right political organisation, after a shake-up of its verification system under new owner Elon Musk. The party\u2019s leader, Paul Golding, has also received a blue &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/far-right-britain-first-party-given-twitter-gold-tick\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Far-right Britain First party given Twitter gold tick<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9756,"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\/9755"}],"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=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}