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White nationalist Richard Spencer and Charlottesville rally organizer Jason Kessler are among the Twitter accounts that lost their verified status.

A unique badge with an Eiffel Tower symbol is visible on the X (formerly Twitter) profiles of certain athletes competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics.

So, the verified checkmark turned from a symbol of status to an indicator that you were a mindless drone. This led to verified users being placed into an unfortunate subset of Twitter users.

Elon Musk ’s move to upend Twitter’s longstanding verification system is turning the platform’s iconic blue check marks into a polarizing symbol of his leadership for some of Twitter’s ...

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Days after Elon Musk’s Twitter purged blue check marks from VIP users and prominent organizations, the checks reappeared on the accounts of a number of high-profile figures, many of whom prom… ...