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. Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) Twitter just emailed me to tell me they are removing my "verified badge" because they claim my account "doesn't comply with Twitter's guidelines for verified accounts." On 19 October, the company rolled out a timeline for policy updates intended to “make Twitter a safer place”. “We gave verified accounts visual prominence on the service which deepened this perception.

Source: The Guardian November 16, 2017 00:07 UTC