Twitter’s confusingly subjective verification process has become a tacit form of approval and legitimacy, which explains the outrage some Twitter users felt when Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler was recently verified.

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Less than a month after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promised to weed out hate groups and other offensive users from the site, they confirmed this guy…

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Kessler feels that his verification was long overdue, “Looks like I FINALLY got verified by Twitter. I must be the only working class white advocate with that distinction.”

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