Twitter just verified this hateful bigot after all of her racism was exposed. There are hundreds of conservative journalists and reporters who have been on Twitter for years who are not verified.pic.twitter.com/cDVcds0CNA
The trouble is that it's the celebrities, journalists, and other memetic bigwigs who take the trouble to get verified (often their company or agent does it for them), and that automatically signals their bigwig status even if the only purpose was identity.