Rep. John Shimkus Grills Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Mass-Reporting and Verification

EXCERPT:

SHIMKUS: "Twitter has a verification program where users can be verified by Twitter as legitimate, and verified users have a blue check mark next to their name on their page. How does the review process for designating verified users align with your community guidelines or standards?"
DORSEY: "Well to be very frank, our verification program right now is not where we'd like it to be, and we do believe it is in serious need of a reboot and a reworking. And it has a long history. It started as a way to verify that the CDC account was the actual CDC account, during the swine flu. And we brought into without as many principles, strong principles as we needed, and that we opened the door to everyone. And unfortunately that has caused some issues, because the verified badge also is a signal that is used in some of our algorithms to rank higher or to inject within shared areas of the site."

(h/t Breitbart)