With the penetration of social media into every aspect of our lives, it has become inevitable for many celebrities to have profile accounts on these platforms. Especially in recent years Twitter, which is a channel used by politicians to inform the public at first hand, witnessed a very interesting event this time. Fake profile of famous politician, twitter Shown as verified account.
Twitter shelved its approved account project
First in 2016 verified account Twitter, which offers the option to users, sports, magazine, press and politics It aimed to detect accounts opened with the same name as well-known figures in the field. In this sense, users; official websites, identities and official email addresses He could have a blue approval badge by transmitting information such as Twitter to Twitter.
About a year later; Confirmed account option scrapped by Twitter in 2017, last October reactivated for a limited audience.
Norway based tech site NRKbetaAccording to the news of Twitter, Norwegian Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold VedumMade ‘s fake account a verified account by mistake. The account, which had only 18 followers when the situation was noticed, was suspended by the social media platform after a very short time. Norwegian Ministry of Finance also confirmed the misunderstanding by issuing an official statement.
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has never taken any action from Vedum. don’t have a social media account and said that users should not trust such accounts.
Until the profile was shut down, tweets were sent that were completely against the political views of Vedum’s party and insulted the government. This misunderstanding Not from Twitter’s management team, It was also admitted that it was due to the negligence of the Norwegian National Security Agency and the Office of the President.
So what do you guys think about this situation? Do you think that such manipulations can be done without the users noticing? Do not forget to share your views with us in the comments section.