Twitter’s “Verified” Users Are Spreading Viral Misinformation As Notre Dame burned, accounts bearing blue check marks flogged false claims of arson.

Last January, Twitter mistakenly verified a fake account of Rupert Murdoch’s wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. In March, a phony Brett Farve feed got the coveted checkmark .

However, Twitter did strip a verified badge from The New York Times after the site said it wouldn't pay for Twitter Blue, in an apparent fit of pique by CEO Elon Musk. He later labeled the site as ...

In a tweet thread on Sunday, Twitter user Conspirador Norteño, a data scientist focused on disinformation, highlighted six newly-created accounts that had all been verified.

Twitter’s testing of a dedicated GIF button first came to light earlier this month, and on Wednesday it announced it as an official feature.. The search button, unveiled by the company in a blog ...

Twitter now allows users to upload higher-quality GIFs on its platform, but only on the web. The company has quietly updated its documentation to reflect that animated GIFs of up to 15MB are now ...

Twitter introduced a new label for accounts with blue checkmarks Sunday that removes any distinction between those paid for by monthly subscribers and accounts verified by Twitter before CEO Elon ...