[Update: The Intercept updated its report, noting that X confirmed that a policy to temporarily remove checkmarks from verified accounts that change their profile pictures was the issue here. UAW told The Intercept that their account’s profile picture was updated in conjunction with the walkout.]
Last night when the clock struck midnight, nearly 13,000 workers at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis went on strike after the so-called “Big Three” car companies failed to reach an agreement with United Auto Workers (UAW). By Friday morning, UAW discovered that X, the platform formerly known as Twitter—in what appeared to be a petty move by platform owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk—had stripped their account’s verified status, The Intercept reported.
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People just need to abandon that shit site already.
But they won’t, so we’ll still have to hear about bullshit like this. Teslas are known to have horrendous build quality, and yet…
Wait. They take away the check mark you paid for if you change your profile pic?
Yes it’s from the days when the blue check had a meaning. You could get “verified” then change the name to Elon musk, put a neckbeard as profile pic, tweet some insane conspiracies, and people would mistake your stuff for the real one.
Now the blue check it means just that you’re an Elon Stan, a Nazi or both, so the problem just solved by itself
This is weeks old.
Thanks to the OP though, didn’t know this and it’s some solid BS. What a tool.
Edit: Thoughts on that update: “here’s the rule that they totally violated now that we’ve been caught doing this in public” more BS.
I mean it seems to be an automated system so… Hanlon’s razor?
Somebody intentionally designed a malicious system. Zero benefit of the doubt is warranted.
Why is it malicious? If you get verified and then change your profile then you’re not necessarily who you were verified as. It’s designed to prevent malicious actors from deceiving people.
It’s not the first time I’ve seen a similar story where there was outrage when a blue check was removed, but the user had changed their picture or description, so it’s probably what happened.
This is what happens when you (The you in this instance is Musk) are a douche lord. Everybody assumes the worst and they’re usually right.
Just add a blue heart emoji in the name to replace it.
Okay, that means nothing
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The move seemingly makes it harder for UAW to maximize reach for its posts on X, just as workers have begun striking, demanding better wages and other benefits.
UAW’s negotiations also seek to expand benefits for union workers involved “in the production of electric vehicles and the batteries needed to power them,” The Intercept reported, and those conversations could also impact Tesla operations.
Last year, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ordered Tesla to revise its policies “to make clear that it does not prohibit production associates from wearing black union shirts.”
There was also tension earlier this year when Tesla Autopilot Buffalo-based workers tried to unionize, alleging that they were being treated “like robots” and pressured to skip bathroom breaks.
And most recently in April, the NLRB again ruled that Tesla violated labor laws when managers at an Orlando repair shop illegally silenced workers attempting to discuss pay and working conditions, Reuters reported.
In the moments after X reinstated UAW’s verification, the union began posting in support of strikers in Ohio and Missouri, some of them chanting, “No justice, no jeeps!”
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