Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Because news is a very important part of Twitter, when Twitter set up their verification system they ended up treating journalists as a kind of special class. All kinds of people *can* be verified, but you usually need to be pretty prominent to get that check. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 3, 2022 Deleted after 9 days Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Tech executives and investors mostly did not like this change, for understandable reasons. And I mostly agree with them on the merits. They also just tend to overstate the role of the tech beat within the larger zone of "the media" and started being very angry at "the media." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 3, 2022 Deleted after 9 days Hibernated

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

But if you're a working journalist on staff at a publication, you will end up getting the check just as a routine part of your job — like how you'll probably get a laptop and some business cards or whatever. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 3, 2022 Deleted after 9 days Hibernated