{"id":2499,"date":"2017-11-17T03:10:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T03:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2017-11-17T03:10:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T03:10:24","slug":"twitter-says-no-verified-marks-for-spencer-kessler-the-two-white-nationalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/twitter-says-no-verified-marks-for-spencer-kessler-the-two-white-nationalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter says no verified marks for Spencer & Kessler, the two white nationalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The social network removes the blue check mark for white nationalists Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler and promises more reviews are to come.<\/p>\n

NOVEMBER 15, 2017: \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Twitter Inc made good Wednesday on threats it would begin stripping its verification badge from accounts found to have crossed the line as the social network continues to review the process it uses to hand out the coveted blue check marks.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Twitter has long offered the badge to authenticate accounts that are of interest to the public. Such accounts have typically included those of public figures and organizations in entertainment, politics, business, sports and the media. But the company has recently begun to worry that the badges also conveyed an endorsement of the account by Twitter.<\/p>\n

“Verification has long been perceived as an endorsement,” the company tweeted Wednesday. “We gave verified accounts visual prominence on the service, which deepened this perception. We should have addressed this earlier but did not prioritize the work as we should have.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Twitter revises verified-account policy<\/p>\n

Twitter said it will remove the verification badges from accounts whose behavior does not fit their guidelines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Twitter removed on Wednesday badges from two accounts associated with white nationalists. Richard Spencer, who\u00a0advocates a separate white homeland<\/a>, and\u00a0Jason Kessler<\/a>, the organizer of the Unite the Right rally in\u00a0Charlottesville, Virginia<\/a>, lost their badges Wednesday afternoon. The August rally in Charlottesville turned violent as neo-Nazis clashed with protesters, leaving one person dead and dozens injured.<\/p>\n

Twitter suspended its verification process last week after the social network drew widespread outrage for giving the verification badge to Kessler’s account.<\/p>\n

Spencer and Kessler didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment, but Spencer responded to the action in a tweet that said: “Verified no more! Is it not okay to be proudly White?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kessler tweeted that Twitter “has changed their verification policy just to be able to censor me.”<\/p>\n

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Jason Kessler<\/strong>\u200f\u00a0<\/span><\/span>@TheMadDimension<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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