Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houthi supporters gather at an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, on April 18. (Osamah Abdulrahman/AP) (Osamah ...

Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to changes to the app’s public GitHub repository spotted Friday by reverse engineer alice.mosphere.at. The blue checks may have ...

Paid-for blue checks on social media network X deceive users and are abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today, threatening the Elon Musk–owned platform with millions of dollars in ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2022, when Elon Musk campaigned to buy Twitter—before he realized he would be massively overpaying and went to court to get out of the deal he himself proposed, before he admitted defeat and took ...

U.S.-sanctioned terrorist organizations appear to be enjoying the perks of paid, premium accounts and verified blue check marks on the social media platform X, a potential violation of U.S. sanctions, ...

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. For ...

Watch out, Elon Musk: The European Union is coming for your blue check brigade. "Back in the day, blue checks used to mean trustworthy sources of information," EU commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted ...