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It's the end of an era on Twitter. Many users said Thursday they had lost their verified blue check marks, posting screenshots of their profiles sans verification. Accounts with verified blue check ...

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Elon Musk on Friday said Twitter is tentatively planning to relaunch its paid verification check service next week after delays over impersonation concerns. Musk indicated the platform will roll out ...

A day after Twitter was supposed to begin removing verified check marks from accounts that wouldn't pay for the platform’s new subscription service, many verified accounts appear to have kept their ...

Face Check with Microsoft Entra Verified ID, a consent-based method used to confirm a person's identity, is now available in general release. First announced and released in preview in February of ...

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), ...

What does YouTube verification actually mean? There are two types of verifications on YouTube: account verification and channel verification. Account verification: This is the typical authentication ...

April 2 (Reuters) - The New York Times (NYT.N), opens new tab will not pay a monthly fee to get verified check mark status on Twitter, a spokesperson for the newspaper said hours after it lost the ...

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As Elon Musk promised, Twitter‘s previous blue check-mark verification regime will soon be history. The social network, which the mega-billionaire bought last year in a debt-heavy $44 billion deal, ...