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The unverified era: politicians' Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41110%2F23%3A97658" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41110/23:97658 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19331681.2023.2293868" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19331681.2023.2293868</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2023.2293868" target="_blank" >10.1080/19331681.2023.2293868</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The unverified era: politicians' Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition

  • Original language description

    This note discusses the impact of changes made to Twitter after Elon Musk's acquisition of the company, specifically focusing on the verification of politicians' accounts. With Twitter serving as an essential source of information, the blue badge of verification has provided assurance of account legitimacy. However, as of April 2023, blue badges were removed from the accounts of users without a Twitter Blue subscription. This note analyzes the verification status of politicians' accounts before and after the changes and finds that over 80% of previously verified politicians have lost their verification. The study used a dataset of 5,156 Twitter accounts of current or former members of parliament in 32 European countries. The note also highlights that the new gray badge, which was introduced to replace the blue badge for politicians and government organizations, is not widely awarded, except in the United Kingdom where members of parliament have a gray badge.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50601 - Political science

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Information Technology & Politics

  • ISSN

    1933-1681

  • e-ISSN

    1933-1681

  • Volume of the periodical

    neuvedeno

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    neuvedeno

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    5

  • Pages from-to

    1-5

  • UT code for WoS article

    001130234200001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85180192616