{"id":610074,"date":"2023-02-20T07:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/mondays-top-tech-news-paid-verification-comes-to-meta\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:49:25","slug":"mondays-top-tech-news-paid-verification-comes-to-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/20\/mondays-top-tech-news-paid-verification-comes-to-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday\u2019s top tech news: Paid verification comes to Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Meta is testing letting users on Instagram and Facebook pay to be officially verified, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/12\/10\/23503355\/twitter-blue-verification-elon-musk-phone-number-ads\">Twitter rolled out a similar feature<\/a> under Elon Musk\u2019s ownership last year. Meta\u2019s implementation will only be available in Australia and New Zealand to start, and will require people to submit a government ID to get their blue badges. Let\u2019s hope it doesn\u2019t face the same <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/11\/9\/23450289\/twitter-impersonators-official-mario-musk-jesus-valve\">impersonation problems that Twitter encountered<\/a> when its service originally launched last year.  <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say that Twitter\u2019s paid subscription offering isn\u2019t facing controversies of its own. Over the weekend it emerged that Musk\u2019s social media network is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/2\/17\/23605073\/twitter-blue-charge-sms-2fa\">removing the option of using SMS for two-factor authentication<\/a> for non-paying users. Yes, SMS is considered to be the less secure way of using 2FA, but <a href=\"https:\/\/rmondello.com\/2023\/02\/18\/twitter-sms-2fa\/\">it\u2019s convenient and better than no 2FA at all<\/a>, so it\u2019s sad to see it disappear behind a paywall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>And finally, for those keeping track, today is the day that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/2\/18\/23604961\/nothing-forever-twitch-ai-suspension-ban-lift-mismatch-media\"><em>Nothing, Forever<\/em>\u2019s Twitch suspension is set to lift<\/a>. The AI-generated <em>Seinfeld<\/em> spoof was in the process of going viral before being taken down after one of its characters made a transphobic remark, but its creators hope to bring it back with more safeguards against inappropriate content in place.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here\u2019s a silly tweet to start your day:<\/p>\n<p><h5>Stay tuned, as we continue to update this list with the most important news of today: Monday, February 20th, 2023.<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"updates-section\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<hr>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<hr>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<hr>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/2\/20\/23607016\/february-20-2023-tech-news-liveblog\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Emma Roth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta is testing letting users on Instagram and Facebook pay to be officially verified, after Twitter rolled out a similar feature under Elon Musk\u2019s ownership last year. Meta\u2019s implementation will only be available in Australia and New Zealand to start, and will require people to submit a government ID to get their blue badges. Let\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27886,46,38134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mondays","category-technology","category-verification"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}