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Whose system? CNN's?

The claim is that CNN forged the verified mark in the supposed screenshot. "But they thought they should" is not a defense.

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Say we go Hanlons razor and not malice: they used a Twitter API which draws the markup, and the API identified them as certified. No hand on the tiller, just a bug

"Forged" goes to intentionality. They've said they didn't mean to do it.

Maybe this is just a corner fight about linguistics.

Hmm, so are you saying that Twitter API used to render these shows different info than the Twitter UI at twitter.com?

Yes. Through third party wrappers which do the render, and a bust cache or some other stuff up which misattributed a flag.

What I don't think they did is screen grab a tweet and ask their photoshop guy to add a blue tick. À

It seems they have some system which generates the markup of a tweet from the pure content. I honestly think that's pretty cool, but apparently it had a bug. Forgery implies intent.

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