Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

In an effort to improve its security measures, Lyft announced Tuesday a new rider verification pilot program to help drivers verify riders’ identities and ensure that they are indeed who they say they ...

Blue-check verification is nothing new in the world of social media, but Bluesky is only now making it available to any “notable” accounts. The social media company has launched an application that ...

The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in a livestream on Monday how its approach to user account verification will ...

It's the old days of Twitter all over again: Bluesky is launching an official verification process for awarding the blue check mark to "notable" user accounts, adding to the platform's existing option ...

It's the end of an era on Twitter. Many users said Thursday they had lost their verified blue check marks, posting screenshots of their profiles sans verification. Accounts with verified blue check ...

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 ...