On Tuesday, Twitter gave its famed blue checkmark to white supremacist Jack Kessler. Kessler – the creator behind the incendiary Charlottesville rally that left protestor Heather Heyer dead and had President Trump making such blood boiling questionable remarks as “very fine people on both sides” – had previously deleted the social media platform after tweeting that Heyer “was a fat, disgusting Communist,” whose death was “payback time.”
Kessler later blamed the comments on a mixture of alcohol and prescription meds, but most people don’t magically turn into sexist, racist trolls when they drink or take medication or a combination of both.
Dorsey tweeted “We (have) decided to take a more aggressive stance in our rules and how we enforce them. New rules around: unwanted sexual advances, non-consensual nudity, hate symbols, violent groups, and tweets that glorifies violence.”
In one of his first tweets, Kessler posted a picture of McGowan in her infamous VMA’s dress with the caption, “#1 Fuck Harvey Weinstein and all but #2 Shouldn’t Rose McGowan be held accountable for being a thot that will do anything for attention?”