The unverified era: politicians' Twitter verification post-Musk acquisition
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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.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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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