As Business Insider cuts 21% of staff to "go all-in on AI," the media industry faces a pivotal moment: adapt and lead the transformation, or risk being left behind.
The platform had long resisted using a checkmark system (preferring a domain-based verification method), but the need for a user-friendly trust signal became hard to ignore.
With Threads rapidly approaching X’s audience size and Bluesky’s momentum slowing, marketers and media professionals must rethink their real-time platform strategies to stay ahead.
At this time, this initiative has been interpreted by many as a means for X to empower its users to flag potentially questionable claims, thereby crowd-sourcing fact-checking to improve the overall quality of information on the platform.
