3 July 2018
Seth Rogen Slams Twitter CEO Over White Supremacists
By Angela Moscaritolo / Pcmag
Seth Rogen has had enough of the white supremacists on Twitter, and he's not staying silent about it.
In a Tuesday tweet, the actor lamented that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey isn't doing enough to stop white supremacists on the platform:
Seth Rogen
@Sethrogen
I’ve been DMing with @jack about his bizarre need to verify white supremacists on his platform for the last 8 months or so, and after all the exchanges, I’ve reached a conclusion: the dude simply does not seem to give a fuck.
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The tweet quickly went viral, racking up more than 15,000 retweets and 66,000 likes in a matter of hours, and many users have chimed in with similar concerns. Rogen did not elaborate on his and Dorsey's conversations, but users are thirsty for screenshots.
Twitter did not immediately respond to PCMag's request for comment.
Rogen's claim comes after Twitter in November put the brakes on its verification process following widespread backlash over its decision to give Jason Kessler, the organizer of last summer's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville a blue check mark.
"Verification was meant to authenticate identity & voice but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance," the company tweeted at the time.
Then in December, Twitter banned several white supremacist groups and two far-right UK politicians from the platform as it implemented new anti-abuse rules. The suspended accounts include the leaders of Britain First, one of whom posted an anti-Muslim video on Twitter that President Donald Trump retweeted. The Twitter accounts for the American Nazi Party, League of the South and the white supremacist publication American Renaissance were also among those shut down.
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