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Know why Twitter Suspended Its Blue Check Mark Verifications
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Know why Twitter Suspended Its Blue Check Mark Verifications

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ollowing the uproar, that began Tuesday, after the company verified the account of Jason Kessler, an organizer of the August white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that left one protester dead and many others injured. Heather Heyer, the protester who died protesting the white nationalist rally(he created) was called "fat, disgusting communist" and that her death was "payback time". Kessler received his blue check mark less than a month after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promised “more aggressive” enforcement against hate symbols and violent groups. Looks like I FINALLY got verified by Twitter. I must be the only working class white advocate with that distinction. pic.twitter.com/IMXqtmhgvn — Jason Kessler (@TheMadDimension) November 7, 2017 Promi...