SoundCloud will bless popular artists with blue checkmarks to weed out copycats

From Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to Tinder and Bumble, blue checkmarks have become a staple of social platforms. But they’ve long been missing from one particular service — SoundCloud. Well, that’s changing. In an announcement on its website, the music service revealed it’ll start displaying blue checkmarks next to the profiles of verified creators. “We’re doing this to help well-known artists stand out and maintain their authenticity, and to help listeners identify these artists more easily,” the company said. SoundCloud says it’s already verified a list of top-performing artists, including Billie Eilish, Wiz Khalifa, and Trippie Redd, but the procedure is…

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