Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoElon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk.www.mirror.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1207arrow-down113
arrow-up1194arrow-down1external-linkElon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk.www.mirror.co.ukFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareBoiglenoight@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoJust like Security can’t stop every spam email, Twitter can’t stop every falsehood on its service. Both should try, though. Twitter has metrics and can put a stop to trending tweets that are clearly disinformation.
minus-squaredragontamer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoElon fired that team the moment he bought Twitter.
minus-squareJaysyn@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoIt sure was less of a problem before MElon took over.
Just like Security can’t stop every spam email, Twitter can’t stop every falsehood on its service. Both should try, though. Twitter has metrics and can put a stop to trending tweets that are clearly disinformation.
Elon fired that team the moment he bought Twitter.
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It sure was less of a problem before MElon took over.