Meta selling new “Meta Verified” blue badge for $12-15/month

Re:Meta selling new “Meta Verified” blue badge for $12-15/month by anonuser123456 on Sunday February 19, 2023 @05:34PM (#34862569)

I have family members that have hundreds of people they've never met on their friends lists. Some of those personalities are obvious scammers/grifters etc. But aging people have diminished capacity for detecting that kind of stuff.

Example:

My MIL is 'friends' with a prominent US based surgeon who is also a leading founder in a biotech company. He convinced her to buy stock in said biotech company, when its price was peaking. Of course it was a classic pump and dump and the value plummeted a few weeks later.

Would identity guard rails have saved her? Possibly not. But telling her "if you don't see a verified XYZ they are a scammer" might move the needle.

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Re:Meta selling new “Meta Verified” blue badge for $12-15/month by janalsncm on Sunday February 19, 2023 @06:25PM (#34862970)

Fair enough. Maybe that doctor’s account would benefit from paying for verification? He is a public figure of sorts. For accounts where most of its “friends” aren’t actually friends then some verification makes sense. I would guess that most accounts don’t fall into this category though.

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