The company responsible for Facebook and Instagram, Meta, announced that platform users who wish to have their pages verified will have to pay.
The decision was seen as a way to emulate what was recently done by Elon Musk on Twitter, with the businessman having already reacted on Twitter. In response to a post on Twitter realizing that Zuckerberg had “copied” Twitter, Musk simply replied that it was something "inevitable".
JUST IN – Zuckerberg copies Twitter: $12 bucks per month to get verified and receive a blue badge. pic.twitter.com/QrNH9KGMVI
- Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 19, 2023
It is already known that verification on Meta's social networks will cost US$11,99 per month (about 6.000 kwanzas), with the service starting to be launched in Australia and New Zealand.
