Meta’s executive director, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the creation of “Meta Verified”, a monthly subscription program in which Facebook and Instagram users will be able to verify their profiles with a blue seal, among other benefits.| Photo: EFE/Alberto Estévez

The executive director of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, announced this Sunday (19) the creation of “Meta Verified”, a monthly subscription program in which Facebook and Instagram users will be able to verify their profiles with a blue seal, among others. benefits. The annual package will cost between US$ 11.99 (R$ 62.35) and US$ 14.99 (R$ 77.95), said the founder of Facebook. Additionally, it will offer users “additional protection against accounts claiming to be you”.

The first countries in which this subscription will be available will be Australia and New Zealand, according to Zuckerberg, who promised that the program will arrive “soon” in other nations. Neither Meta nor the company’s executive director informed whether those who are already verified will lose the blue seals if they do not pay the monthly fee.

The system is similar to “Twitter Blue”, which is being adopted in the social network that is now owned by the American tycoon Elon Musk. Users who pay for the subscription to verify their profiles on Twitter also have an edit button — which already exists on Meta’s social networks for a long time, free of charge — and more characters for posts.

Since Twitter implemented this new system, several account verification problems have occurred, both for public figures who are alive and for people who have died.