Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced this Sunday “Meta Verified”, a monthly subscription in which Instagram and Facebook users will be able to get verified of your account with a blue badge, among other benefits.
The founder of Facebook also noted that this annual subscription will cost between $11.99 and $14.99 and that, in addition, it will offer users “additional protection against identity theft.” The first countries to get this subscription this week will be Australia and New Zealand.
The measure will arrive “soon” in more countries, according to Zuckerberg indicated via Instagram. Neither Meta nor Zuckerberg indicated whether users who are already verified will lose their blue badges if they don’t pay this monthly fee.
This measure looks like the “Twitter Blue” plan that Elon Musk is implanting in your social network. In this case, the “Twitter Blue” subscribers, They also have an edit button -something that Meta’s social networks have been offering for free- and more characters in their tweets.
Since Twitter implemented this new system, various account impersonation issues have been seenboth public figures who are alive and those who have already died.