@bencourtice I think we need a more sophisticated approach. I'll give an example:

Twitter users generally appreciated the blue checkmark that verified official accounts.

I think that, in working democracies, an opt-in verification for citizens could be an answer. This may mean being an ID to a post office, but we can still make it anonymous so that neither the govt nor the server owner knows which ID was used to verify which account.

Then I can safely ignore unverified users.