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The fake articles are incredibly bad. I hope the future Internet isn't made up of wading through mostly bot-generated nonsense like this to find real content. DJ Dr. 6ix: > “Umbrella,” DJ Dr. 6ix’s most recent single, has taken his listeners’ breath away. It’s only been a few months since the song was released. The song, on the other hand, has developed a large fan base in such a little time. Every day, the number of…
The fake articles are incredibly bad. I hope the future Internet isn't made up of wading through mostly bot-generated nonsense like this to find real content. DJ Dr. 6ix: > “Umbrella,” DJ Dr. 6ix’s most recent single, has taken his listeners’ breath away. It’s only been a few months since the song was released. The song, on the other hand, has developed a large fan base in such a little time. Every day, the number of…
It already is..
What I don't understand is why Meta/Facebook thinks you are only a real person if you are a musician. You cannot just upload a picture of your passport and a couple of bank statements. You know, the way any other company verifies the identity of a person?
Definitely not interested in giving ol Zuck my passport and bank statements
That is so funny and in a nice timing: Tom Cormen just started to beg Twitter to have a verified account: https://twitter.com/thcormen/status/1564767028375945217
this happens so often and there's something about this (begging Twitter to notice you exist) that rubs me the wrong way. I previously said that Twitter verification is just an arbitrary label that Twitter, Inc, bestows upon someone.
That is so funny and in a nice timing: Tom Cormen just started to beg Twitter to have a verified account: https://twitter.com/thcormen/status/1564767028375945217
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Yes. But even assuming a desire to limit verification to notable people, it seems very odd that minor musicians are allowed but not minor actors.
I would have to guess the infrastructure/digital bureaucracy of Spotify provides a scalable verification method in a way that doesn't exist for minor actors. Having a Spotify artist account at least implies you have an identity with connected financial credentials (i.e. to receive streaming revenues).
Plus, it's not like DJ Dr6ix wasn't actually the doctor in question. He just wasn't a musician. He wasn't pretending to be someone else, just something else.
Too bad these fake musician pages are taken down. I am curious as to what fake music sounds like.
Also, this is not about verifying identity but verifying fame or being 'approved'. I have another idea: if meta requests account verification for anti-spam purposes, does this mean they will verify me too?
ProPublica only revealed how stupid or pointless account verification is overall. Either let anyone verify or what is the point of it.
I toss a water bottle his way, he catches, music still playing. Funny, that.
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They should either change the verification badge to say “certified famous” or something, or just give out the verification badge to anyone who wants it, provided they successfully prove their identity. I don’t see how verifying my identity negatively affects Justin Bieber’s verified status, for example.
Perhaps there is a second person on earth named Justin Bieber? Then they might try to trick people. The blue check says “this is the one you probably meant”
> Meta has so far removed fraudulently applied verification badges from more than 300 Instagram profiles It's not a "Verification Badge", it's a "Famous Person" badge. If you verify someone's identity, John Doe indeed controls the instagram account with his face and name, then I don't see how there could be anything fraudulent about it if it's just a "verification badge". The verification badge is supposed to show wh…
My partner runs a small brand, which attracted a copycat page clearly designed to scam users out of money for giveaways. She attempted to “get verified” and was denied because there was not enough news stories about the brand. We own the trademark to the brand name, and the verbatim copying of the copycat clearly infringes copyright. The only option we have is to file a trademark dispute through Instagram, but that i…