The Atlantic Wire - After breaking the story of Yahoo naming its new CEO, AllThingsD's Kara Swisher figured out exactly how Twitter ended up accidentally verifying a fake Wendi Deng Twitter account, and it's not what you think. Because Twitter doesn't want to talk about the screw up, we sort of assumed that a young Twitter staffer ("Junior Account Verifier" is the job title we imagined them having, for some reason) either wasn't paying attention or went rogue in order to play a big prank on Rupert Murdoch, thus verifying a fake account. That's not at all what happened:
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