It seems that Mark Zuckerberg has taken over Elon Musk’s concepts one by one, which shows a complete lack of creativity on the one hand and greed on the other.

“Good morning and new product announcement: this week, we’re starting to roll out Meta Verified — a subscription service that lets you verify your account with a government ID, get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you, and get direct access to customer support. This new feature is about increasing authenticity and security across our services. Meta Verified starts at $11.99 / month on the web or $14.99 / month on iOS. We’ll be rolling out in Australia and New Zealand this week and more countries soon,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook.

So he’s essentially copied Twitter Blue, where paying users also get priority (they even get access to a security feature that others will no longer have starting in one month, we wrote about that in more detail yesterday). And anyone who’s on under a pseudonym will most likely be mandatorily renamed to their real name, which is on their ID. It’s OK to take action against fake profiles, but direct access to customer services is bordering on cheeky.

We’re talking about Facebook, which automatically labels you as a scammer and a fraud. Let’s say a DJ plays the music they receive. He then looks for the artists and labels to tag their pages. But if there are more than fifty pages, they won’t fit in the post, so that you can put them in the comments. The system then jumps to delete the comment in a matter of seconds, even though the person is not spamming at all, because they only want to inform the parties concerned of their support and choosing the disagreeing with the decision button never helps. So now you have to pay for the service, only to be called a spammer despite being an otherwise innocent person…?

On iOS, the subscription will be more expensive because of Apple’s profit margin, but there seems to be no plan to have regional pricing for the blue tick.

Source: WCCFTech