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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday announced “Meta Verified,” a monthly subscription where Instagram and Facebook users will be able to get their account verified with a blue badge, among other benefits.
Facebook’s founder also noted that this annual subscription will cost between $11.99 and $14.99 and will also offer users “additional protection against phishing.”
The first countries to get this subscription this week will be Australia and New Zealand.
The feature will be coming “soon” to more countries, Zuckerberg said via Instagram.
Neither Meta nor Zuckerberg stated whether users who are already verified will lose their blue badges if they do not pay this monthly fee.
This action resembles the “Twitter Blue” plan that Elon Musk is rolling out on his social network.
In this case, “Twitter Blue” subscribers also have an edit button -something Meta’s social networks have been offering for some time now for free- and more characters in their tweets.
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Since Twitter implemented this new system, there have been several problems of account impersonation, both of living and deceased public figures.
