Why Is Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Allowing ‘Verified’ Users to ‘Promote Hate’ Against White People?

November 17, 2017

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey decided to ban alt-right personality Baked Alaska on Wednesday and removed “verification” check marks from Richard Spencer, James Allsup, Jason Kessler, “Wife With A Purpose,” Tommy Robinson, Laura Loomer and other right-wing personalities, ostensibly for “promoting hate.”

Dorsey’s “Twitter Support” account tweeted last week: “Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance. We recognize that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it. We have paused all general verifications while we work and will report back soon.”

Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance. We recognize that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it. We have paused all general verifications while we work and will report back soon

— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 9, 2017

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Dorsey confirmed from his personal account they’re working to “fix” the problem (which they made up).

We should’ve communicated faster on this (yesterday): our agents have been following our verification policy correctly, but we realized some time ago the system is broken and needs to be reconsidered. And we failed by not doing anything about it. Working now to fix faster. https://t.co/wVbfYJntHj

— jack (@jack) November 9, 2017

A year ago today, a racist apricot-hued asshole scammed his way to the White House thanks to a self-righteous FBI director, a superficial media, a foreign nation adept at catfishing on a budget, and mostly, fragile white people in need of an ego boost. Fuck all of them forever.

— Michael Arceneaux (@youngsinick) November 8, 2017

https://twitter.com/Alexicon83/status/931002279557324801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D57637

I’ll admit it. I hate white people.

— Jonathan Zaslow (@ZaslowShow) June 1, 2016

as much as I hate white people I don't think "Guap" was white

— Moshe Kasher (@moshekasher) June 23, 2016

this film, and The Big Chill, are the reason I hate white people.

— Kelly Dwyer (@KDonhoops) July 2, 2016

I hate white people

— Ricky Spanish (@LxthuL) July 4, 2016

I hate white people

— Jovon White (@IamJovonW) September 4, 2016

This is so gross I hate white people. This lady is a racist moron. https://t.co/IDogvd69nu

— poppy (@pxppyrose) December 1, 2016

yes I am racist! I hate white people!

— Andy Cohen (@Andy) December 14, 2016

this why I hate white people

— B R E N N E N (@BrennenTaylor) March 6, 2017

I tried but I hate white people too much. #whitegenocide

— Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (@danielh_g) June 20, 2017

fuck white women.

— Chillian J. Yikes! (@jilliancyork) March 13, 2017

https://twitter.com/twoscooters/status/862288770028187648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D57637

We told you White people suck…

We've been telling you for years! 😂😂😂

– POC

— IG: @IAmTehran (@IAmTehran) October 12, 2017

Need further proof that so-called “white” people suck by a disproportionate percentage? https://t.co/bZGbm7Kymd

— Max Borenstein (@MAXBORENSTEIN) October 18, 2017

https://twitter.com/TheDweck/status/922892488859205632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D57637

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/886060672311754752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.informationliberation.com%2F%3Fid%3D57637

Fuck white people and their fucking guns and their bullshit gun culture and all of it. Goddammit.

— Megan Romer (@meganromer) July 24, 2015

Keith Olbermann, who does nothing but “promote hate,” is also still verified.

Twitter suspends influential conservative Trump supporter @bakedalaska for no apparent reason yet @KeithOlbermann still has an account and is in clear violation of Twitter TOS. pic.twitter.com/PK7NE32G1s

— Michael Coudrey (@MichaelCoudrey) November 15, 2017

CUNY Professor Jessie Daniels, who said anyone “reproducing white children” is “part of the problem” of “white supremacy” is still verified.

Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher, who said he wants “white genocide for Christmas” and said the genocide of white people during the Haitian revolution “was a good thing indeed” is also still verified.

Jack Dorsey’s hypocritical censorship standards were exposed last year:

A Twitter user conducted an interesting experiment to sniff out double standards in the site’s censorship policy concerning race.

The person wrote the same comment on two different accounts with only two words changed, then reported each for abusive behavior.

The first comment read: “I fucking hate white people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Trump. Fuck you.”

The second: “I fucking hate black people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Clinton. Fuck you.”

The first was found not to be in “violation of Twitter’s Rules regarding abusive behavior,” while the second resulted in the user’s account being banned.