<story><title>India ruling party&apos;s IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters&apos; faces</title><url>https://www.altnews.in/wrestlers-detained-in-delhi-ai-image-of-smiling-vinesh-sangeeta-phogat-viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&amp;gt; Verified account @wokeflix_ tweeted the same image in a meme&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Verified account @randomsena tweeted the same image&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Another verified account, @RealAtulsay, tweeted the same image&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;Verified&amp;quot; on Twitter just a subscription now, meaning it&amp;#x27;s just that these people have given Twitter money? Why it matters (in a journalistic sense) who has paid Twitter or not? And why are only some of the verified accounts mentioned as verified accounts, while others are verified but not mentioned as verified?&lt;p&gt;Such a weird article overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway384629</author><text>Also, twitter shows the comments from &amp;quot;verified&amp;quot; handles on the top of other comments. Government sponsored trolls have unlimited flow of money to buy verified status and dominate the general public accounts.&lt;p&gt;This is how BJP government uses public money to run troll campaigns on social media against opposition leaders. [1]&lt;p&gt;Possibly hundreds or thousands of persons or &amp;quot;journalists&amp;quot; are getting funds from government to abuse the opposition leaders.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ndtv.com&amp;#x2F;india-news&amp;#x2F;exclusive-silver-touch-behind-bjps-online-dominance-1766114&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ndtv.com&amp;#x2F;india-news&amp;#x2F;exclusive-silver-touch-behin...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>India ruling party&apos;s IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters&apos; faces</title><url>https://www.altnews.in/wrestlers-detained-in-delhi-ai-image-of-smiling-vinesh-sangeeta-phogat-viral/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>capableweb</author><text>&amp;gt; Verified account @wokeflix_ tweeted the same image in a meme&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Verified account @randomsena tweeted the same image&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Another verified account, @RealAtulsay, tweeted the same image&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;Verified&amp;quot; on Twitter just a subscription now, meaning it&amp;#x27;s just that these people have given Twitter money? Why it matters (in a journalistic sense) who has paid Twitter or not? And why are only some of the verified accounts mentioned as verified accounts, while others are verified but not mentioned as verified?&lt;p&gt;Such a weird article overall.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matsemann</author><text>I think that&amp;#x27;s their point. It&amp;#x27;s a way of subtly pointing out that verification on Twitter is now useless, and shouldn&amp;#x27;t be trusted any more than claims from any other user. Even less, I guess, since it&amp;#x27;s not a equal distribution of people paying for verification, they all skew pretty hard to one side.</text></comment>