Paid Verified Badges on Instagram!

The Meta paid subscription will give you a verified badge on Instagram and Facebook, confirming you’re the real you.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has started rolling out its paid verification subscription in India. It can be bought after paying ?699 on iOS and Android. Meta says it is planning to introduce a web purchase option for ?599 a month in the coming months.

What will you get with the paid subscription?

1. A verified badge, confirming you’re the real you and that your account has been authenticated with a government ID. The checkmark is much sought for given it is often associated with notability.

2. More protection from impersonation with proactive account monitoring for impersonators who might target people with growing online audiences, the Facebook parent claims.

3. Help when you need it for common account issues. At the moment, support is available in English only, but Meta says it will be extended to include Hindi as well in the future.

Will the legacy blue tick on Instagram and Facebook be taken away?

When Twitter rolled out its Twitter Blue subscription that offered a verification badge, it removed all the other legacy blue tick marks. Although it restored it for a select group of users for free. However, Meta has decided to keep verified badges that were granted previously based on existing criteria. “Any previously verified account will maintain its status on Instagram and Facebook for free,” CEO Zuckerberg said on his official Instagram broadcast channel.

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