Unlike Twitter here Meta’s payment service works Verified actually require you to be who you say you are. The service – which, among other things, attracts with a fancy brand, priority access to technical support, better protection and other benefits on Facebook and Instagram – requires the user to register with their legal name.
This may seem perfectly reasonable for a service called “verified” and stands as some kind of guarantee that the user is genuine, but a requirement is also that the full name is displayed externally. Something that is now drawing criticism in the United States, writes Techcrunch. Privacy defenders, trans people exposed to hate and threats and users who sell self-created sexual content online are some of the user groups that reportedly saw Meta’s name requirements.
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“For $15 you get doxxed,” one user told Techcrunch, criticizing the security complications for vulnerable content creators on the internet. Doxing is a popular phenomenon in the United States that involves collecting and publishing information about people for the purpose of hanging.
Meta Verified is currently only available in the US and Australia. Users pay a monthly fee for access to the service, and at the time of application, a photo ID is required, among other things. Whether and when the service will come to Sweden remains to be seen.
