<story><title>A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/tech/fake-twitter-candidate-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Such farcical comedy.  They verify a fake candidate but refuse to verify well known but “problematic” public figures...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>injb</author><text>Exactly. The article is part of the farce as I see it, in that they still continue to take Twitter seriously:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;...that a teenager using next to no resources was able to quickly create a fake candidate in his free time and get it verified by Twitter raises questions about the company&amp;#x27;s preparedness ...&lt;p&gt;Raises questions? On the contrary - it settles any questions about about their preparedness.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;The creation of a fake candidate account is in violation of our rules and the account has been permanently suspended&lt;p&gt;So the punishment for not existing is, you get banned. That&amp;#x27;s actually their response.&lt;p&gt;Next up: teenager uploads photo of all legitimate candidates to ThisPersonIsNotReal.com and gets them all perma-banned from Twitter...</text></comment>
<story><title>A high school student created a fake 2020 candidate, and Twitter verified it</title><url>https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/tech/fake-twitter-candidate-2020/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mc32</author><text>Such farcical comedy.  They verify a fake candidate but refuse to verify well known but “problematic” public figures...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Pfhreak</author><text>These are two different issues. They both relate to verification, but they are orthogonal. An accident in verifying someone is a failure in the system&amp;#x27;s ability to correctly find evidence.&lt;p&gt;Removing verification from people who violate TOS or spread messages that Twitter does not want to endorse is deliberate but unrelated.</text></comment>