Facebook Announces Verified Pages

On Twitter, you can make sure that celebrities or popular people are really controlling accounts through verification checkmarks. Now the same feature is available on Facebook. The social network announced Wednesday that pages that are really run by highly followed people will come with marks of verification. Unlike the hoax uncovered Tuesday, this is legitimate.

On Twitter, you can make sure that celebrities or popular people are really controlling accounts through verification checkmarks. Now the same feature is available on Facebook. The social network announced Wednesday that pages that are really run by highly followed people will come with marks of verification. Unlike the hoax uncovered Tuesday, this is legitimate.

Verification badges will appear:

  • Next to the name of the page
  • When hovering over the name of a page
  • In Graph Search queries
  • In stories about people liking a page
  • In News Feed ads for your page

While this feature will initially be rolled out to celebrity and public figure pages, it will later be applied to personal profiles.

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