Social networks’ latest business model is charging for security

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It’s understandable — but also risky.

text message-based 2FA, Twitter is now trying to simultaneously move people onto a more secure option. The new change is happening on a rushed one-month timeline that seems almost designed to alarm people into paying for a less secure option, which Twitter pitches as a luxury service rather than the deprecated system it really is.

Meanwhile, Meta’s plan combines things that make sense as premium upgrades with ones that a good social network should be doing by default. Flagging accounts that are at special risk for impersonation improves the service for everyone, because it tells the average user they can trust they’re actually following the people they think they are.

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