Twitter's badge of dishonor

The weekend's verification bonfire is an all-time case study in doing trust and safety wrong

“blue bird setting a checkmark on fire, cartoon style” / DALL-E

Today let’s talk about Twitter’s darkly hilarious misadventure with verification badges over the weekend through two lenses: first tech policy, then business.

However messy they were, the basic events of the weekend are not in dispute. After months of saber rattling, on Thursday morning Twitt…