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   Emma (ipg@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 19:49:57 JST Emma

   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

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     FediTips has moved! (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 07:44:29 JST FediTips has moved!

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     @ipg

     This is exactly why I was warning against using third party verification a couple of days ago.

     Verification is only worth something if it happens via the user's own site, or a site they directly belong to (such as an employer or university or other social network).

     Verification through a random third party site isn't really verifying anything.