Meta is launching a verified subscription service.

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Meta Launches U.S. Subscription Service

So let's take a look at some top stories that we're following it this afternoon, starting with meta might be taking a page out of Twitter's feed. Its subscription service officially live. The new service giving users the opportunity to pay for a blue, a verified badge. The same way that Elon Musk did a Twitter. Yes. Leave it to Zuckerberg to basically rip off every single idea that ever happens on social media. Had to say it. He admitted it as well. This shows it implicitly Um explicitly, I guess that has stopped down about 4% today, underperforming the broader market. So that's worth noting. But here's how it works. Users can pay $12 or $15 a month depending on whether either on their phone or web browser and get that blue badge. Well, the company verifying your account by using your government I D right now. It's not open to everyone. You have to join a waitlist and that his latest move coming as the tech giant looks to other avenues for growth outside of advertising them in a slowdown and spending one thing that I'm gonna say if you're gonna provide your government I D you want to make sure that you have a strong password two factor authentication with logging into any of these apps. You have to pay for it. Now, as of in a few days at Twitter, you don't have to pay for it for. Now. I don't believe that meta you haven't historically, but certainly if you're gonna give away that information, do take the necessary precautions.