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Meta’s paid verification service requires your legal name to be public.
And that’s especially a problem for some users, including sex workers and other users who have stage names, or anyone who doesn’t go by the name on their ID.
Meta spokesperson Simone Levien says the company may ease the feature’s identity standards going forward.
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