{"id":798,"date":"2021-11-19T19:54:59","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/facebook-verified-a-fan-page-posing-as-elon-musk-but-now-the-page-is-gone-the-verge\/"},"modified":"2021-11-19T19:54:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T18:54:59","slug":"facebook-verified-a-fan-page-posing-as-elon-musk-but-now-the-page-is-gone-the-verge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2021\/11\/19\/facebook-verified-a-fan-page-posing-as-elon-musk-but-now-the-page-is-gone-the-verge\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook verified a fan page posing as Elon Musk, but now the page is gone &#8211; The Verge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Filed under:<br \/>Seems like Twitter\u2019s not the only platform with verification challenges<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElonMuskoffici\">A Facebook fan page for Elon Musk<\/a> with 153,000 followers had been verified as the official page representing the Tesla Technoking \u2014 in violation of Facebook\u2019s own rules \u2014 but sometime after we first published this story on Monday, the page became inaccessible. It\u2019s unclear if Facebook took it down or the owners chose to make it unavailable.<br \/>To be clear, the page wasn\u2019t<em> pretending<\/em> it\u2019s Musk; it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElonMuskoffici\/about_details\">openly stated<\/a> that it was a fan page in its About section (emphasis ours):<br \/>Musk owns a Tesla Roadster car 0001 (the first one off the production line) from Tesla Motors, a company in which he is an early investor. The Roadster is a battery electric sportscar with a 220 mile range.<br \/><strong>This is a fanpage, uploading tweets etc from him<\/strong> <br \/>When we wrote about it, there were only 10 posts on the page, with the earliest dating from October 21st. One was a photo of Musk, one was a notification that the page updated its profile picture to be one featuring Musk, and the others appeared to be reposts of recent tweets.<br \/>The page didn\u2019t start as a fan page for Elon Musk. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElonMuskoffici\/about_profile_transparency\">Page Transparency<\/a> tab \u2014 which shows some history of a page, who it is managed by, and whether it runs ads \u2014 said the page was created on July 28th, 2019 to represent a \u201cKizito Gavin,\u201d which is the reversed name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=gavin+kizito&amp;sxsrf=AOaemvLL_yUSow0dBngTpDo-xCxLByLbUQ:1635794566290&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=nws&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiN6LHQ8ffzAhUCIjQIHRKJDxMQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1824&amp;bih=860&amp;dpr=1.58\">soccer player Gavin Kizito<\/a>. <br \/>The page changed its name six times, all in 2021, most recently changing to Elon Musk twice (somehow) on October 17th. The Page Transparency section also said that the people who managed the page were based in Egypt. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/12\/8\/22163805\/elon-musk-texas-moved-california-tesla-spacex\">Musk lives in Texas<\/a>.<br \/>Also maybe worth noting: the URL for the page cut off the end of the word \u201cofficial\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElonMuskoffici\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElonMuskoffici<\/a> \u2014 which doesn\u2019t seem very official.<br \/>It\u2019s unclear when the page was verified. Facebook\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/1288173394636262\">verification rules<\/a> state that the company has \u201cconfirmed that the Page or profile is the authentic presence of the public figure or brand it represents.\u201d To be verified on Facebook, you have to fill out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/help\/contact\/295038365360854\">a form<\/a> that requires, among other things, that the submitter share official identification in the form of a driver\u2019s license, passport, national identification card, tax filing, recent utility bill, or articles of incorporation. <br \/>Verification is a challenge for big social media platforms. Twitter has also struggled with the problem. It paused its verification program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/9\/16628290\/twitter-jason-kessler-charlottesville-verification\">in 2017<\/a> and relaunched it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/20\/22435770\/twitter-public-verification-program-launch-2021-pronouns-profile\">earlier this year<\/a>. The relaunch has been somewhat bumpy, though, and the company admitted in July that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/7\/13\/22575025\/twitter-verified-fake-accounts-botnet-researcher\">it mistakenly verified<\/a> a small number of fake accounts. <br \/>Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, hasn\u2019t replied to requests for comment.<br \/><em><strong>Update November 1st, 7:26PM ET<\/strong><\/em><em>: The page is no longer available.<\/em><br \/>Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week.<br \/>Please confirm your subscription to Verge Deals via the verification email we just sent you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/11\/1\/22757771\/meta-facebook-elon-musk-verified-fan-page-posing\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under:Seems like Twitter\u2019s not the only platform with verification challengesA Facebook fan page for Elon Musk with 153,000 followers had been verified as the official page representing the Tesla Technoking \u2014 in violation of Facebook\u2019s own rules \u2014 but sometime after we first published this story on Monday, the page became inaccessible. 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