Neowin News Feed for: Impersonation

Spotify introduces new verification measures for podcasts to combat AI slop

Fiza Ali — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:20:01 +0000

Spotify is introducing new ways to protect against AI-generated voice and identity misuse for podcast users. Read more...

Meta explains what it does to creators who post unoriginal content

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:30:01 +0000

Meta has updated Facebook's guidelines to clarify what counts as original content and which actions can get you demonetized. Read more...

WhatsApp adds a crucial feature to help stop impersonation

Paul Hill — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:12:01 +0000

Meta is working on a new feature for WhatsApp that helps your contacts safely find your Instagram profile. Read more...

Google stopped 5.1 billion rogue ads from reaching users, fired millions of bad accounts

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:04:01 +0000

The search giant suspended millions of ad accounts and took action against billions of bad advertisements before they were served to users. Read more...

Bluesky updates impersonation policy to fight fake accounts

Aditya Tiwari — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:28:01 +0000

The decentralized social network Bluesky has updated its impersonation policy to fight fake accounts on the platform. Almost half of its top 100 accounts reported having at least one duplicate. Read more...

YouTube is going after fan channels that impersonate others

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:04:01 +0000

YouTube has updated its impersonation policy which will roll out later this year. As per the new policy, fan channels should make it obvious that they don't represent the original creator or entity. Read more...

Twitter will roll out multicolored verification system real soon

Hemant Saxena — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:12:01 +0000

In what appears to be a revamped verification system for Twitter, Elon Musk hinted that his team will relaunch its paid verification service in a multicolored scheme, comprising three colors. Read more...

Twitter CEO Elon Musk holds off paid verification until impersonations are reduced

Justin Luna — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 02:58:01 +0000

New Twitter owner Elon Musk is holding off on relaunching its paid verification service until significant impersonations stop. He originally announced that the service will return on November 29. Read more...

Twitter will permanently ban impersonators, says CEO Elon Musk

Justin Luna — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 03:46:01 +0000

As Elon Musk's Twitter allows anyone to wear a blue tick for $8 a month, the company is aiming to prevent impersonations by permanently banning accounts that do not indicate that they are a parody. Read more...

WikiLeaks: CIA leveraged 'innocent' domains to control malware on devices

Gurkaran Singh — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:26:01 +0000

According to WikiLeaks' latest report, the CIA used seemingly harmless domains as a facade to hide its 'Hive' communications platform that enabled the covert exfiltration of data from target machines. Read more...