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After removing thousands of legacy verification checkmarks on April 20, Twitter is restoring the Blue tick marks for large accounts — even if they didn’t pay for subscriptions. Over the weekend, multiple top accounts (with more than 1 million followers) got their verification marks back. However, many of them including writer Neil Gaiman, footballer Riyad

After chief twit Elon Musk made good on his promise to remove Twitter accounts’ legacy verification blue ticks last week, numerous high-profile accounts now appear to be re-verified — including a number of dead celebrities.It’s likely that the re-appearance of their blue ticks is part of a wider (but unannounced) scheme by Twitter to restore

This week, The Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh got hacked, leading a hacker called Doomed to gain unfettered access to his Twitter, Google, and Microsoft accounts. A journalist named Dell Cameron then tweeted to encourage the hacker to contact him and then published the resulting interview with Doomed for Wired. Tweeting out that story—Cameron

High-profile users like Beyoncé, Pope Francis, and ex-president Trump lost their blue badges as Musk rolls out long-promised move to strip un-paid-for Blue Ticks from users...

Elon Musk’s grand plan for Twitter — that is, what he hopes to create beyond a “town square” for posting and messaging — is starting to take shape. And that...

Twitter has talked about pulling legacy verified checkmarks for a while, and now it's acting on that plan. The social network has begun removing the original blue ticks from users' profiles — formerly verified staff at Engadget can confirm this. From now on, you'll need to pay $8 per month for Blue to get that

In a bid to further combat hate speech on its platform, Twitter has announced that it will now label tweets that have been downranked for violating the platform’s hate speech policy. The move comes as part of a larger effort by the Elon Musk-led social media platform to be more transparent about its content moderation

Twitter may have a looser stance on bans under Elon Musk, but it's still willing to flag content that runs afoul of its rules. The social network will label tweets it believes are violating its Hateful Conduct policy. You'll see a notice that Twitter is limiting the "visibility" of the problematic post with an opportunity