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Twitter makes changes to its verification policies on Wednesday November 15th Twitter started taking away verification badges from accounts that violate its policies twitter posted a series of tweets on the twitter support account explaining its reasoning the company said verification has long been perceived as an endorsement we gave verify to council visual prominence on the service which deepened this perception Twitter went on to say it's working on a new authentication and verification program Twitter is also not accepting any public submissions for verification additionally the company outlined what can cause a loss of verified status in a post for example an account that promotes hate and/or violence against people on the basis of race or ethnicity can lose its badge twitter removed verification badges from Richard Spencer and Jason Kessler who are associated with white nationalists Spencer tweeted verified no more is it not okay to be proudly white Kessler took Twitter's move personally saying Twitter has changed their verification policy just to be able to censor me okay then did you think the verification badge implied in endorsement let us know for more coverage check out cnet.com Amaya's act Arnall see you online