In order to keep their brand verification status, companies are required to pay X, formerly known as Twitter, $1,000 per month in advertising expenses. Elon Musk justified the action, saying it will ...

A new verification mark intended to better identify prominent Twitter accounts has instead become the latest source of chaos at the company under new owner Elon Musk. The video featured is from a ...

Anyone active on X (formerly Twitter) since its acquisition by Elon Musk in late 2022 knows that hate speech, misinformation and extremism is rampant on the platform. At this point, such toxic content ...

Some verified accounts receive a gold checkmark denoting they’re an ‘official organization.’ Other users are simply noted as ‘verified’ whether they paid for the checkmark or not. Image: Donny Hery ...

X appears to be working on new ID verification features several months after rampant impersonation temporarily derailed the company’s paid verification plans. The platform is now working on an ...

If you use X, formerly known as Twitter, you might've seen gray or gold-verified accounts promoting cryptocurrencies. They often pose as actual cryptocurrencies. While you would think these ...

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In 2022, South African-born American entrepreneur, Elon Musk, announced his purchase of Twitter for approximately $44 billion. This made him the sole owner of the company. As Twitter’s new owner, he ...

In what we can only assume was a fit of jealous pique at Mark Zuckerberg stealing away all the negative headlines and eyerolls that are his by divine right, Elon Musk’s Twitter/X-if-we-have-to-call-it ...

Just days after he became the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk announced what sounded like a major change and overhauling how verification works. For most of Twitter’s history, a... If his first days ...