After two years of absence, the Twitter account certification program may well reappear. In any case, this was affirmed this Sunday, June 7, Jane Manchun Wong, specialist in the search for functions under test on social networks.
Twitter is working on “Request Verification” 👀
(I'm not Twitter employee. I'm not tech support) pic.twitter.com/ED58QsD7kM
She found that a “request verification” feature was being developed on Twitter. Contacted by TechCrunch , the social network confirmed the information, without giving a date for the return of this service which aims to ensure "the authenticity of an account of public interest".
The account of a certified white supremacist
In 2017, this feature was at the heart of a controversy. Some had denounced the certification of Jason Kessler's Twitter account. This white supremacist was behind a rally in Charlottesville in which an anti-racist protester was killed, knocked down by a man who had rushed into the crowd with his car.
After this controversy, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced the suspension of this certification program. He felt it was necessary to review it. Since then, accounts have been certified again, says BFM TV , but only on the initiative of the platform itself, without prior request from the users concerned.
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