![]() ![]() As Facebook reported its latest quarterly earnings this month, Mr. Meta, which relies heavily on advertising revenue, has lately been cutting costs and hunting for new income streams - even as it continues to invest billions in its shift to the so-called metaverse. Twitter said last week that it would soon disable two-factor authentication through text messages for users who are not paid Twitter Blue subscribers. Meta’s subscription move follows Twitter’s push under its new owner, Elon Musk, to charge users $8 a month for blue check marks through its Twitter Blue service. The company described the new paid service as a way for it to “help up-and-coming creators grow their presence and build community faster.” ![]() Those who already have verified accounts on Instagram and Facebook will be able to retain them at no cost, for now, Meta said in a blog post. Facebook and Instagram accounts must be enrolled separately in Meta Verified - meaning that those who want blue badges on both sites must pay at least $24 a month - but Meta plans to eventually offer bundled subscriptions, she said. She declined to name other countries in which Meta Verified will become available. ![]() The service will be expanded to the United States in the next few weeks, a Meta spokeswoman said. Subscribers will receive “extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you,” Mr. To become eligible for Meta Verified, users will have to submit a government ID to prove their identity, and subscribers will be allowed to use only their legal names on their profile pages, the company said. “This new feature is about increasing authenticity and security across our services,” Mr. The company described the effort as a “gradual test.” For $11.99 a month (or $14.99 if purchased on Apple’s operating system, iOS), users will get a blue badge and direct access to customer support. The teenager told The New York Times that in order to determine how much fuel each jet uses, he reached out to a company that sells data and told them he needed it for academic purposes.Meta - the parent company of Facebook and Instagram - wants power users to start paying for some of its sites’ features, taking a page out of Twitter’s playbook in charging for verified blue check marks.Ī new subscription service called Meta Verified will become available this week in Australia and New Zealand and will soon be expanded to other countries, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, said Sunday in posts on Facebook and Instagram. ![]() By clicking each, users can learn more specific details about the number of flights taken, jet fuel used, and carbon dioxide emitted. Using Sweeney's Ground Control Registration Database - which was developed to famously track Elon Musk's private jet - Shendure identifies and compiles carbon emissions from the private jets of more than 150 wealthy Americans and their families.Ĭurrently, Thomas Siebel, the Murdoch family, and the DeVos family, take the top three spots for highest emissions, respectively. Seattle-based Akash Shendure, 17, is the brains behind Climate Jets, a project he developed "to reveal the disparity between the carbon emissions of the ultra-rich and average Americans," he writes on his website. Move over, Jack Sweeney - there's another teen making waves for tracking the carbon emissions of the world's wealthiest individuals. ![]()
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