Twitter Slammed After Fake Pentagon Explosion Jolts Stock Market: ‘Just Enabling Conspiracy Theory Creators at This Point’
The image of a billowing black cloud near an official-looking, fenced-in building was tweeted by the Blue-check-verified @BloombergFeed account, which, along with several other accounts, has since been suspended.
The confusion about Monday’s hoax confirmed what critics of Twitter Blue — which requires only a monthly subscription fee to be “verified” on the Elon Musk-owned platform — had feared, with fake accounts being confused for legitimate news outlets or companies.
Twitter Blue has been causing these kinds of costly mix-ups since it rolled out in November 2022, an account pretending to be pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly cost the company millions with a tweet that read, “Insulin is free now.”
“There is NO explosion or incident taking place at or near the Pentagon reservation, and there is no immediate danger or hazards to the public,” the Arlington, Virginia fire department and the Pentagon Force Protection Agency tweeted in response to the fake report.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/twit...56299.html
The image of a billowing black cloud near an official-looking, fenced-in building was tweeted by the Blue-check-verified @BloombergFeed account, which, along with several other accounts, has since been suspended.
The confusion about Monday’s hoax confirmed what critics of Twitter Blue — which requires only a monthly subscription fee to be “verified” on the Elon Musk-owned platform — had feared, with fake accounts being confused for legitimate news outlets or companies.
Twitter Blue has been causing these kinds of costly mix-ups since it rolled out in November 2022, an account pretending to be pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly cost the company millions with a tweet that read, “Insulin is free now.”
“There is NO explosion or incident taking place at or near the Pentagon reservation, and there is no immediate danger or hazards to the public,” the Arlington, Virginia fire department and the Pentagon Force Protection Agency tweeted in response to the fake report.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/twit...56299.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"