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Except that you would know which account was the real Donald Trump, because Donald Trump would be on TV telling you so.

Extremely well-known figures have other ways to let you know which account is theirs. The harder set of people are the sort of low-to-medium famous. Or locally famous, not globally famous. The verified system has never worked well for that group anyway.

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And yet every other week there's another news outlet publishing tweets from "Julian Assange" that aren't actually from Julian Assange (here's one from last week [0]), because twitter refuses to verify him and the people copying his account do it very well.

Now imagine that at the presidential level. No thanks.

0: https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/927671065379262465

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