X begins rolling out 'About this account' location feature to users' profiles
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Why product managers overseeing any forum platform have not implemented something easy and obvious as account location metadata is something sociologists need to study.
This was a common-ish feature for a long time and major sites like 4chan have had it in one form or another I think for literally decades at this point.
All social platforms of the last decade rely on "engagement" and bots/trolls/fake accounts/etc contribute to that, both directly and in terms of posting inflammatory content that the masses then "engage" with.
one can imagine the influencers saying they X is lying or I fear for my safety and them the whole bandwagon joining in
So this is like a one time shot of transparency, that will quickly be useless (although I’ve been hearing it has been rolled back already - some speculation is because it exposed that the majority of MAGA boosters were not US based)
Whoever was following these people aren't taking a hard look at themselves in the mirror now. They're just searching out the same content that is "really" American.
I'd reckon Twitter's long-term goal isn't to make the trolls go away, but to pay for the privilege of visibility.
FB has required real identities for a long, long time.
I don’t think that case study provides a good before/after analysis.
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People are “toxic” in general. They kill each other.
But removing anonymity reduces it.
X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run
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