Most Twitter execs didn’t know what the blue verification checkmark was for
Internal emails obtained by BuzzFeed show that Twitter executives couldn’t agree on what the purposes of Twitter verification were for. Nearly two years ago after the company unverified alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, there was internal discussion on whether they should restore his verification or ban him from the site outright. Yet emails between Twitter CEO …
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Internal emails obtained by BuzzFeed show that Twitter executives couldn’t agree on what the purposes of Twitter verification were for. Nearly two years ago after the company unverified alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, there was internal discussion on whether they should restore his verification or ban him from the site outright. Yet emails between Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Twitter execs reveal even the highest-ups in the company struggled to interpret its own verification policies. Was verification only a high-profile “ID check” or was it an endorsement from Twitter? As BuzzFeed reports: