See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Twitter's "blue check" used to signal author authenticity. Now, it's a ...

X has changed their policies on getting your profile verified with a blue check mark. This has given scammers a unique ...

Amid the ongoing Twitter Blue check debate – with many celebrities wanting their blue checks gone – Gmail has decided to take a page from the social media platform’s book. The email service has rolled ...

Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to changes to the app’s public GitHub repository spotted Friday by reverse engineer alice.mosphere.at. The blue checks may have ...

Bluesky, the social platform often seen as a less chaotic and open alternative to X, has finally announced plans for an account verification system. The core idea is to put a blue tick as a visual ...

Bluesky announced on Monday that it is rolling out blue check verification, confirming previous rumors that this feature was on its way to the platform. Like Twitter’s original blue check (RIP), ...

Free blue checks appear to be back on X just months after billionaire Elon Musk axed them in favor of a paid subscription model, though many users are unhappy to have Twitter’s formerly coveted ...

NEW YORK — Elon Musk’s X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has begun restoring complimentary blue checks for some of its users, the latest unexpected shift to cause a lot of confusion on the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Wednesday night, something odd happened to me on Twitter/X. An alert popped up in my notifications: ...

Companies like Meta have been on a blue check mark kick lately, despite how the verified icons have become a mark of shame rather than a status symbol on Twitter, the site which originally popularized ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

It's the old days of Twitter all over again: Bluesky is launching an official verification process for awarding the blue check mark to "notable" user accounts, adding to the platform's existing option ...