3 Years After Axing Legacy Checkmarks, X Tries to Clean Up the Damage

Don’t miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google.

With X eliminating legacy verified accounts in favor of paid checkmarks, it can be difficult to determine an account’s authenticity these days. So, X plans to show additional account history information on profiles.

The About section in user profiles on a handful of X employee accounts will soon display information about the user’s country of origin, the number of times they have changed their username,…