Breaking News - Pay to Get Verified on Instagram

🚨 Breaking news!! 🚨

Yesterday, Meta announced that they are releasing a new feature that will allow creators to pay to get verified?!?

This is causing major controversy & I definitely have some feelings about this one

Some of the benefits:

- A blue checkmark on your profile

- Increased reach & more opportunity to be seen by your ideal audience (from search, recommended accounts, comments etc.)

- More protection from impersonation

- Access to exclusive features & customer support

Some concerns:

- A rise in scams

- Will the blue checkmark have less value?

- How will the algorithm change as people start to sign up?

What do you think? Would you pay for verification?