blue check

Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends In the fall of 2023 I decided to do a little experiment in the height of the “blue check” hysteria. Twitter had shifted from verifying accounts based (more or less) on merit or importance and instead would let users pay for a blue checkmark. That obviously went (and still goes) badly. Meanwhile, Meta opened its own verification service earlier in the year, called Meta Verified. Mostly aimed at “creators,” Meta Verified costs $15 a month and helps you “establish your account…