Richard Spencer and others lose Twitter verified status under new guidelines
by Julia Carrie Wong from Technology | The Guardian on (#383ED)
Company announces new rules for blue-checkmarked verified accounts following criticism over status of Charlottesville rally organizer Jason Kessler
Twitter announced new guidelines for verified accounts on Wednesday, one week after the company was harshly criticized for granting the coveted blue checkmark to Jason Kessler, the organizer of the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville in August.
"We are conducting an initial review of verified accounts and will remove verification from accounts whose behavior does not fall within these new guidelines," the company wrote on Twitter.
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