Elon Musk is planning to dismantle Twitter‘s decade-plus-old verification program, designed to increase trust in the social network by providing a visual signifier that high-profile accounts are, in ...

On Tuesday, Twitter's new dastardly daddy Elon Musk vowed to do away with the platform's verification process. He called it a "lords & peasants system" that he'd democratize by making it available to ...

The story of Twitter’s blue checkmarks — a simple verification system that’s come to be viewed as an elite status symbol — began with some high-profile impersonations, just as the site began taking ...

X, formerly Twitter, is letting verified users hide their verification badges. Verified users noticed this week that a new option appeared in their profile settings. The “hide your blue checkmark” ...