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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by leereeves on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:56AM (#23361617)
Worse, Twitter can't be trusted to keep the IDs safe. They've suffered many data breaches in the past.

And it wouldn't even stop the bots, because Twitter isn't limited to Americans, so bot makers could easily send fake official IDs from someplace Twitter can't check. Or send stolen offical IDs from other data breaches.

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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by joering2 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:26AM (#23361787)
I bet there are some ThisIDDoesNotExist websites that bots use to autogenerate vast majority of fake ids, probably by using ThisPersonDoesNotExist website.

You can generate realistc photos of IDs from countries that Twitter cannot positively verify those bc in USA there are ways to check authentity of your document. But IDs from Russia or Ukraine - no way.

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