Blue-check verification is nothing new in the world of social media, but Bluesky is only now making it available to any “notable” accounts. The social media company has launched an application that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Houthi supporters gather at an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 18. (Osamah Abdulrahman/AP) U.S.-sanctioned terrorist organizations appear to be enjoying the perks of paid, ...

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Elon Musk had promised to take away all of Twitter’s blue check marks doled out to Hollywood stars, professional athletes, business leaders, authors and journalists unless they start buying a monthly ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s back! On Wednesday afternoon, verified badges on X — blue checks — began to reappear on accounts that lost them when X owner Elon Musk revoked the legacy verification markers to charge for them ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TikTok’s removal of blue verified check marks from some popular accounts is causing an uproar among the app’s highly followed ...