The check mark has at times been decried as just another status symbol, a way for people to earn clout. But it’s also been used to confirm that account holders are indeed who they say they are.

The Margin Twitter’s blue-check-mark drama gets stupider over the weekend Many popular but unpaid accounts have their check marks restored against their will — or even despite their deaths ...

The shifts to the check mark program are part of the moves being made by Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October for $44 billion. Last year, he said that Twitter would begin removing verification ...

But to other users, the check mark has become a status symbol, unfairly reserved for a select group. It’s a sentiment Mr. Musk, with his feudalist metaphor, appears to share.

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. Just hours after the feature ...

Twitter has removed the verification check mark on the main account of The New York Times, one of CEO Elon Musk's most despised news organizations.. The removal comes as many of Twitter's high ...

But not all of these statuses are denoted by check mark icons in Facebook Messenger. Only two of them are. In the next section, we’ll go over all of the icons used to indicate the above ...

Social media posts claiming that Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg joined forces to establish a “non-woke” film production studio originated from a satirical site, and it is not true, Gibson’s ...