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That's surely not true. Lots of people have blue checks even though Twitter staff would never endorse their views - Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, Candace Owens, and so on.


You're correct that it's generally not true. But the grain of truth is that they did punish some notable jerks by removal of verified status: https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/15/technology/twitter-verifica...

IMHO these were pretty clear anti-abuse actions. But of course those people claim that they were being punished for their views.


I think the claim is a little more nuanced. Basically yes those people went over a line and got punished but at least some claim that others also go over that line but don’t get punished (as often).

I don’t know how true that rings.




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