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"We see the modern blue checkmark as a sort of tell: an indication that the
opinions someone expresses are immediately suspect, an aggregation from secondary
and even tertiary entities affiliated with some business or political project.
Their individual presence on social media subsumed by some impersonal or even
pernicious market force, I propose we rename the eponymous blue checkmark to
something more appropriately indicating their intent and reliability: the 'Slience
Brand.'"