Jack Dorsey to $1.59 million. In March 2018, Dorsey announced that an improved version of the verification system is coming to Twitter. The purpose of redesigning verification is to let people verify more facts about themselves, emphasizing proof of identity. The overhaul was not in place before the U.S midterm election of 2018 to help in verifying the identities of the candidates. In September 2018, Dorsey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee alongside Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg about meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Following this testimony, Twitter shares fell 6%. Dorsey, along with co-founder Jim McKelvey, developed a small business platform
Fake news website Russian news, propaganda, and inflamed conspiracy theories. The party's site "TzeTze" had 1.2 million Facebook fans and shared fake news and pieces supportive of Putin cited to Russia-owned sources including "Sputnik News". "TzeTze" plagiarized the Russian sources, and copied article titles and content from "Sputnik". TzeTze, another site critical of Renzi called "La Cosa", and a blog by Grillo—were managed by the company Casaleggio Associati which was started by Five Star Movement co-founder Gianroberto Casaleggio. Casaleggio's son Davide Casaleggio owns and manages "TzeTze" and "La Cosa", and medical advice website "La Fucina" which markets anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and medical cure-all