![]() ![]() Perfect profiles to be extor…I mean, marketed these protection services. People who might be at the most risk of being impersonated on the internet. This will mostly be targeting professionals, celebrities, influencers, and companies. Thankfully, most users won’t care about getting the checkmark on their profile. This allows the company to get paid to offer protection services (growing up in New York, that sounds familiar) vs implementing proper anti-spam/bot and fake account systems in order to create a valuable and safe online social platform/product for everyone. Because in the end, everything is always about money. That, and so that the company has another way of making those sweet sweet dollar bills, ya’ll. Meta says the new paywall will help so that “more people can trust the accounts they interact with are authentic”. Users would have to provide a government-issued ID in order to become verified and it does come with some extra “perks”, like protection from impersonation and access to tech support. Instead of verification status being free (as it should be), the company will be charging users $11.99/month via the web or $14.99/month via mobile in order to have the privilege to wear the blue check mark on their profiles that shows they have been verified. But you can likely expect that this status will go away unless you pay up, once the new “Meta Verifies” program rolls out to everyone in the near future. As laughable as it seemed, Mark Zuckerberg appears to agree with the idea as Meta gets ready to do the same for Facebook and Instagram.Īt the moment, the feature is in testing and there is no absolute final decision on what will happen to accounts that already have verified status. The CEO decided that he needed to find every possible way to make the social platform profitable, including the simplest of feature it seemed. Elon Musk seems to have started a trend when it comes to charging users for the right to have a “fancy” little blue checkmark next to their name on Twitter.
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