The InterceptDec 22, 2022
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Show threadAaronDec 22, 2022

@theintercept can you verify that this is you? On your Twitter, the *pinned* post does not include any link to or mention of Mastodon account.

Additionally, you haven't verified yourself through the HTML method on other websites (including your own), and for The Intercept (which deals with technical means of information verification) this strikes me as highly suspicious.

Show threadanggiar Dec 23, 2022
@00Aaron @theintercept It is them. Maybe it's a bit too complicated too verify using that html method? (I know it's too complicated for me 😐, I'm kind of technologically inept tho).
Show threadAaron
@anggiar @theintercept what makes you say it's them?
Dec 23, 2022 at 5:18amWeb
Show threadanggiar Dec 23, 2022

@00Aaron @theintercept Because the lack of evidence that says it isn't. The lack of motive to say that it isn't them. It's not bot. It's not sharing non-intercept affiliate news. Even some of their journalist is here, none of them saying that the account is parody or bot. Also their instance is know to host journalist.

No concrete evidence that the account isn't theirs. Apart from your suspicion.

Show threadAaronDec 23, 2022

@anggiar @theintercept

Verification isn't about looking for evidence that it isn't X, it's about having a chain of trust from what you know is X to what you think may be associated with X.

If verification was as you say, any good impersonator who avoided showing ulterior motives is actually one in the same with the actual thing. That's not how it works.

Show threadAaronDec 23, 2022

@anggiar

I welcome The Intercept putting this all to bed and showing what a paranoid fool I am by taking any step whatsoever that draws a line from its website or other trusted social media accounts to this one.

And yet it hasn't done it.