Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 23, 2023) — Social media sites are making extra security a paid

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.

Social media’s latest business plan seems to be charging for security.

Twitter recently announced a plan to make SMS-based two-factor authentication a paid service as part of Twitter Blue — asking users to pay either $8 or $11 monthly for the feature set. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, also announced a new pay-for-verification service on Facebook and Instagram that will allow users to pay up to $14 a month for “a …

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