YouTube is only the latest platform to botch its verification program

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The modern-day verified social media account was born in June 2009, when the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals sued Twitter because someone had created an account to impersonate him. In the years since, the question of what verification should mean — and who should be eligible to be verified — has bedeviled every social network that’s ever attempted to do it.
The problems with Twitter’s program have long been evident. The process