The post-blue check Twitter cesspool

I wasn't ready to call Twitter a general cesspool in the first weeks and months after Musk's takeover.

But, the blue-check fiasco? Different.

On topics like RFK Jr. and his various conspiracy theories, my feed, at least, is swarmed with wingnut and pseudoskeptical pseudoleftist blue checks. The truth, I blogged yesterday, here, and don't even get me started on Assange and the Seth Rich conspiracy and other things.

And, given the recent news about Elon forcing a blue check on Wint — who promptly changed his Twitter name to erase it — and LeBron — who didn't, as well as him gifting blue checks to others, it's more and more clear that it's a shitshow.

So, I'm not totally following Wint's idea yet, but I am blocking more and more of the wingnut and pseudoleftist blue checks, and because it will be more fun, I'm going to mute some of the Blue Anon ones who boo hoo about how we shouldn't do this.

Plus, the new blue check cesspool has enabled non-blue checks of cesspool nature to ramp up.

Add in that even the modest number of Jack Dorsey era content moderators are largely gone ....