Twitter Blue Tests Verification With Government ID and Selfie

X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial. AdvertisementThe potential and peril of new verification standardsIdentity verification on the internet has always been a touchy subject. Critics and civil liberties advocates have widely condemned attempts to institute mandatory ID verification on popular sites because they see it as a privacy infringement. Some have argued that mandatory identity verification could effectively stamp out this kind of information pollution, though concerns about privacy have largely kept such policies from ever being implemented. Even crypto—long a web community obsessed with privacy—appears to be lurching towards new identity verification schemes (we’re looking at you, Worldcoin).