The Latest Breaking News from Twitter Inc.

Twitter on Thursday began removing legacy blue checkmarks from user profiles, with famous people including Pope Francis, Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates and Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo losing their verified status. Under Elon Musk's ownership, Twitter has changed how it hands out the coveted blue checkmarks, previously given to…

The time has come for us to stop using the term "digital revolution" in such a catchphrase-cute way, with the inevitable emphasis on "digital" and little thought for the meaning, and historical realities, of "revolution."

The company used "visibility filtering rules" in order to curtail propaganda and misinformation. Under Elon Musk, those guidelines have been discarded.

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A day after deleting blue ticks from legacy accounts, Twitter dropped its labels from several news accounts that designate them as “government funded” or “publicly funded”.

Twitter now requires advertisers to be verified before they can run ads, something that could see businesses paying $1,000 a month before even paying for them.

Twitter now has rules to prevent scammers and impersonators.

One Direction singer Niall Horan and Irish rugby star Brian O'Driscoll are among the celebrities who lost their verified Twitter status overnight

Accounts will have to subscribe to Twitter Blue to keep their verification or be linked to a verified organisation

The verification symbol has been removed from thousands of accounts

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