Actor Seth Rogen took to Twitter to assert that he has been in communication with CEO Jack Dorsey about the site allegedly verifying the accounts of white supremacists. Rogen claims that after eight months of discussion with Dorsey, he has come to the “conclusion” that Dorsey “simply does not seem to give a f**k.”
The anti-“bigotry and sexism” group Sleeping Giants, which recently went after Breitbart’s advertisers, chimed in by saying that, for Twitter, “racism and harassment equals traffic equals a higher stock price equals millions in their pockets.”
Rogen’s claim that Twitter is verifying white supremacists is in contrast to Twitter’s policies and its recent behavior. In November 2017, Twitter took away the coveted blue verified check mark from people sometimes labeled “white supremacists” by the media in light of its new verification policy. Under the new policy, users can lose their verification status if they are believed to be promoting “hate and/or violence against, or directly attacking or threatening other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease” or “[s]upporting organizations or individuals that promote the above.”
The day before Rogen’s tweet about white supremacists, former Texas congressman Ron Paul tweeted about political correctness using a photo with racist caricatures. Rogen tweeted about the mishap, which Paul said was “inadvertently posted” by a staff member and was “immediately deleted.”
