X – formerly known as Twitter – has gone through more than a name change since it switched over. One of these has been with the account verification process. You know, that little blue check mark that ...

April 2 marks International Fact-Checking Day, which is devoted to debunking misinformation and celebrating the people who help spread the truth. VERIFY is dedicated to helping our readers distinguish ...

Asking for photo ID, such as a scan of a person’s driving licence or passport, is another method, along with asking for a verified credit card. However, the amount of personal data involved in ...

The effectiveness of this technology, and its biases, has been regularly questioned. But it has become the preferred tool to ...

Last Thursday morning I woke up to find I no longer had access to my messages on social network Bluesky. "You must complete age assurance in order to access this screen," a pop-up notification told me ...

In recent weeks, headlines have claimed Americans are being “dangerously misled” about age verification laws for online pornography. But what’s truly misleading is the suggestion that these laws are a ...

There are posts online warning that an old, low-tech form of fraud called “check washing” is on the rise. It involves thieves stealing checks out of mailboxes and rewriting them. “Check washing” is a ...

It took until 10am on the day when the UK’s new online age checks came into force for people to figure out an absurd workaround. The rules brought in by the Online Safety Act meant that websites ...