In one of the largest studies of its kind, MIT researchers examining thousands of fake news stories going back a decade on Twitter have determined that fake news is more likely to spread across the social network than factual information. “Duh,” you said, but the statistics might be even worse …

For Twitter, this system has proven to be a problematic one in recent years, often forcing the company to choose sides in debates it'd presumably rather not be a part of. For users, verification is a status symbol, and one that often leads their followers to believe they're a credible …

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a livestream Thursday that the company plans to offer its blue-check-mark verification badge to more of its users, an oft-requested feature. He said the company is working on a new process to verify people's identity and ensure credibility. "We want to be one of …

After closing down its verification program last year, Twitter seems to be working on redefining what exactly that blue check mark means. CEO Jack Dorsey said during a Periscope live stream today that the intention eventually is to reopen the verification process to everyone, but with some changes… Read More

Twitter on Thursday updated its website to reflect that it has appointed a new chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal. He takes the position most recently held by Adam Messinger, who left in late 2016. The appointment was announced internally in October, during a quarter when Twitter managed to … Read More

Earlier this month, Twitter began soliciting proposals from the public to help the platform capture, measure and evaluate healthy interactions. Today, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and other members of the team held a public conversation via Periscope about the company's new initiative to measure healthy … Read More

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said in a Periscope livestream today that the company is working to allow any user to become verified. “The intention is to open verification to everyone,” Dorsey says. “And to do it in a way that's scalable, where [Twitter] is not in the way and people …

Have you always wanted a blue Twitter verification badge? You'll (eventually) be able to get one, according to CEO Jack Dorsey. In a very casual Periscope livestream on Thursday, Dorsey said that he wants to verify everyone on Twitter, a continuation of the plan Twitter laid out a few years …

Now, it's asking us to help, soliciting our ideas for how to promote and measure more civil conversation. Proposals are due April 13. To many Twitter followers, what's most surprising is how long it's taken for the company to get here. Over the past few years in particular, the social …

The study, which Aral said took about two years to complete, found that it took true news stories about six times longer to reach 1,500 people on Twitter than stories that were false. False stories, the study said, “diffused significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in …