Facebook to verify identity of individual accounts that go viral in the US

Facebook will now start verifying the identities of people with individual profiles that have a larger audience in the US, the company said on Thursday.

“In 2018, we started to verify the identity of people managing pages with large audiences, and now we’re extending ID verification to some profiles with large audiences in the US,” Facebook wrote in a blog post.

The move is to ensure that the identities behind these accounts that have gone viral in the US are real and not bots. The social media platform will verify the identities of profiles displaying “inauthentic behaviour.”