On Twitter, verification has been fraught with complications and concerns over the years. Originally, Twitter would verify some high-profile users but ignore others who believed they deserved ...

Check for this new ‘verified’ symbol. Google's new verification feature for VPN apps in the Play Store will tell you if your VPN is reputable and secure. By Laura Pippig and Joel Lee.

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 ...

Topline. Twitter re-verified many users with massive followings over the weekend, just days after purging the site's famed blue verification check marks from accounts that don’t pay for Twitter ...

But as some legacy verified profiles continue to hold on to their check marks, the new language has prompted speculation that some celebrities have paid for Twitter Blue.

There hasn't been an official explanation of why a bunch of formerly verified people just got a free blue check. But recently, Elon Musk tweeted that X would be giving free premium subscriptions ...

Twitter is reportedly giving its Verification for Organizations to 10,000 major companies and 500 advertisers for free so they don’t have to pay the posted $1,000 a month rate for it.

The New York Times 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 verified badge on the social media platform.

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 platform.

Twitter's move to strip away legacy verification sparked mass confusion on Friday -- with some celebrity users keeping their blue checks despite not paying Elon Musk's subscription fee while ...

But with hours to go before Twitter planned to take away these verification check marks en masse on Saturday — and hand them out only to those who pay $8 a month or $84 a year for a Twitter Blue ...

The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in a livestream on Monday how its approach to user account verification will ...