Twitter is obscuring who paid Elon Musk's social media company for a blue check mark, now just noting that the account is "verified." ...

It appears that Elon Musk has finally (mostly) given up on trying to make paid blue checks on X a thing. This week, X users with large followings were surprised to see that their blue checks — which ...

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 ...

Almost a year since blue check marks disappeared from some large, influential accounts on X (formerly Twitter), they have started to return. On Wednesday, some individuals with large followings ...

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X gave out thousands of free blue checkmarks to influential users, again, but it's not the status symbol it was two years ago. Reading time 2 minutes Elon Musk reinvented the blue checkmark Wednesday ...

X is giving free blue checks to users who have more than 2,500 “verified” followers, which are people who subscribe to X Premium. Popular posters will get a blue check, but not everyone is happy about ...

The European Commission (EC) has imposed its first fine under Europe’s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), and it’s against Elon Musk’s X. The EC is taking issue with the fact that X has been ...

Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter. “It’ll be a rolling process as the feature stabilizes, and then we ...

TikTok’s removal of blue verified check marks from some popular accounts is causing an uproar among the app’s highly followed stars. This month, TikTok suddenly unverified multiple accounts with ...