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Twitter, now known as X, appears to be working on its verification method for premium users , with the app asking for a government-issued ID and a live photo to verify accounts. Blue checkmarks are available to those who pay for X Premium, formerly Twitter Blue, a subscription service which also offers users a host of special features including the ability to edit posts, write longer posts and undo posts. Before tech magnate Elon Musk acquired the platform, verification was given out to users in media and government , or those at heightened risk of impersonation. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-asks-users-of-premium-service-for-photo-of-government-issued-id-to-verify-account-TheFOXposts-33201.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed by the government 's move to police news on social media through a self-appointed fact-checking unit, the industry body said on Friday, describing the new rules as draconian and akin to censorship. The amendments to the country's IT rules make it obligatory on platforms "not to publish, share or host fake, false or misleading information" about the government . India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration has been in repeated tussles with various social media platforms when they failed to heed demands that certain content or accounts be taken down for allegedly spreading misinformation. The federal government on Thursday announced that it would appoint the fact-check unit to identify fake, false or misleading information, but the Editors Guild questions the unit's governing mechanism, its sweeping powers in determining fake news and the right to appeal in such cases. "All thi...

TikTok's chief executive will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share US user data with the Chinese government amid growing US national security concerns. "TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, US user data with the Chinese government. Nor would TikTok honor such a request if one were ever made," CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify on Thursday, according to written testimony posted on Tuesday by the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. He added that TikTok's parent company ByteDance is not owned or controlled by any government or state entity. "Let me state this unequivocally: ByteDance is not an agent of China or any other country," Chew will say to the committee. TikTok's critics fear that its US user data could be passed on to China's government by the app and prompted growing calls to ban the a...

The US government has received more than 350 new reports of what it terms “unidentified aerial phenomenon”, or UFOs, since March 2021 – roughly half of which are unexplained, an Office of the Director of National Intelligence report released on Thursday reveals. The Pentagon office responsible for tracking and studying the sightings has preliminarily identified 163 of the reports as “balloon or balloon-entities”, according to the report. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: US man claims he has ‘alien technology’. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> A handful of other reports have been attributed to drones, birds, weather events or airborne debris such as plastic bags. But “initial characterisation does not mean positively resolved or unidentified,” the report cautioned. And the remaining 171 report ed sightings of UAPs or UFOs continue to be unexplained. “Some of these uncharacterised UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance...