 do not trust hello.coop and their verified identities, or their verified.coop and press.coop instances they use their "verification" service to make a false claim of association for accounts such as BBC and NPR at their press.coop instance, despite them not being at all official they then use a fake checkmark badge and tag their Twitter mirroring accounts on press.coop with this verification to mislead people into thinking they're official 20 comments
 @siguza @winload_exe @ipg @Gargron it’s just another instance dedicated to reposting twitter accounts into the fediverse - they seem focused on news outlets. I don’t think they’re particularly problematic and I see that there are several thousand follows on Infosec.exchange of accounts there. I think we all would prefer the BBC to join here in person  @jerry @siguza @winload_exe @Gargron i think there is a clear difference between an innocent mirror and something that is intentionally misleading people into thinking it's associated or official (the "verified" link claims that the person behind the fedi account owns the twitter account, and the use of a verified checkmark - while they don't *mean* anything, it seems fairly sinister to imply something that isn't true)  @ipg @jerry @siguza @winload_exe I'm a bit skeptical of the utility of those green checks because it's always a false sense of security to some degree. It just means that one particular server is claiming it's verified. This definitely highlights the flaw.
 @jerry @siguza @winload_exe @ipg @Gargron Absolutely for all reputable news organisations and businesses. I would love to be able to completely ditch my Twitter account. They also need to be encouraged to self-verify when they or any business / organisation has an account 🙂  @ipg@wetdry.world well, if this is indeed true, those instances are asking to be defederated then @ipg@wetdry.world well, if this is indeed true, those instances are asking to be defederated then  @ipg this is why orgs need to self host here. It auto verifies them. Just like an email address is legit because it came from BBC.org or whatever  @ipg I think it’s reasonable to question the gold badge and such, but the project of bringing content to the fediverse seems helpful. How do you think those balance out?  @ipg realized they exist 1-d days ago when I saw the NPR account on their, really don't know how to deal with this... On one hand I agree with having some place that is willing to faithfully mirror those news outlets On the other hand I agree the profile green checks are a bit too misleading. Even for someone familiar with the fediverse it takes quite a bit of effort to realize the profile green check is fabricated  @ipg “Do not trust .. verified identities” Several other official sources check (such as websites and Linkedin profiles, for example) + common sense check (helps against hacked official accounts to some extent) is always better, and the best is instances like kernel.org’s one which is linked to organization’s official website domain |
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@ipg shouldn't this warrant a fediblock or?