A good # of the biggest federal ones have a grey badge.
But the lower you go into regional offices, state & local, the worse it looks.
And situation is even more dire internationally.
Rich villain sowing global chaos to make everyone give them $$$ is the evil-scheme-that-always-splutters in so many great movies.
Because the near universal audience reaction is to want it to fail.
Epically.
Given the scale of official accounts around the world stripped of verification today.
And those of elected & appointed officials.
And counting twitter's slashed global workforce.
It's safe to say that this totally avoidable chaos will be with us for a long time.
Ugh, the State Department's tipline, too.
Which offers rewards for tips about terror groups targeting the USA.
The stakes are not a joke.
Presidential administrations got stripped of verification too.
So did whole govs.
I picked Africa, and it was true for just about every country I checked.
Twitter's only effort seems to have been to grey badge heads of state.
That's it.
Like a sloppy highschool effort.
Got visa issues? Need to contact an embassy ?
Let's look just at embassies in the US.
Sure enough, stripped.
From Sweden to Kenya, Kazakhstan to Bahrain...
Good luck figuring out what's real.
Oh and how about Musk's other favorite thing?
Of the top 10 space agencies in the world, only @NASA is verified.
I checked.
Everybody else got stripped.
One thing I'm confident about.
From scammers to coup plotters, terror groups to village trolls: today a lot of people are pondering if/how they might leverage Musk's nearly clean global sweep of verification of governments, agencies, militaries, etc.
Musk just made a crystal clear case to governments & businesses that they should rethink whether & how much they use #twitter for official comms.
And instantly showed *everybody* that Twitter isn't the same place to find instantly-verified official statements that it once was.
There are self owns.
And then there's whatever rapid unforced value destruction this is.
But wait, there's more.
Twitter deleted "state-affiliated media" labels.
I'm sure Russia, China & Iran are tickled.
As we all know, fake lookalike accounts aren't new.
And even *when* official accounts had verification, you could find people mistakenly engaging the fake ones.
Be wary of OSINT-branded accounts recycling faked & old footage of airstrikes, explosions, interceptions etc.
It happens every time, but in New Twitter they have a direct financial incentive to push out inflammatory nonsense.
There's more 1/
2/ The annoying practice of some OSINT-branded accounts of repeating headlines ginned up & borrowed from somewhere without citation as if it's their own...
Is reckless & dangerous during fast moving conflict where there is huge potential for *consequential* misunderstandings.
3/ Exercise extreme caution in what you amplify & believe.
Twitter is awash with a flood tide of falsehoods tonight.
Some is the work of people trying to farm revenue.
And some is disinformation seeking to seed specific false perceptions.
3/ If you'd like to learn a bit more about why I recommend the Access Now Digital Security Helpline & what to do if you get a threat notification from @apple, this is a helpful resource: accessnow.org/help/access-no…