

I think she suffers from the fact that people view blue check twitter accounts as people with actual knowledge and if they don't actually check the person's bio, they assume that someone is making a comment from real, verified information. But Jhaveri is a sports reporter, so her opinion on the shooter being a white guy is basically the same as Jesse tweeting his opinions on the Celtics. They're not based on any specific knowledge. 

This is one of those situations where she would have been better off sticking to sports, and if she wanted to share her opinion, do so on a private account, even if that gets less likes and retweets and follows. 

Of course, maybe there isn't pressure on USA Today to do this if people on the left weren't getting people fired or at least attacking them all the time for "problematic" tweets from over a decade ago. 