Company announces new rules for blue-checkmarked verified accounts following criticism over status of Charlottesville rally organizer Jason KesslerTwitter 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 descend within these new guidelines, and ” the company wrote on Twitter. Twitter just emailed me to recount me they are removing my "verified badge" because they claim my account "doesn't comply with Twitter's guidelines for verified accounts."
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Source: theguardian.com