[AliAdams]

Maybe "Trusted" could be be a better alternative to "Verified".

[blotter_paper]

If a President were caught in a lie, would the "Trusted" status be removed? If not, what would the "Trusted" status even mean?

[mc32]

“Lie” is too strict. Everyone is caught making false statements. Everyone would get “distrusted.”

[falcor84]

> Everyone is caught making false statements

That is too postmodern for my tastes. I would strongly argue that one can speak without making false statements, and would be very much in favor of some sort of fact-checking badge on social media. It would be difficult, but I really believe it would be worth it.

[Mountain_Skies]

Who watches the watchers?

So far pretty much every fact checking organization, regardless of original intent, eventually succumbs to the temptation to bend their fact checking to their ideological preference.

There is no social media company that has the credibility to even be taken seriously as a impartial arbiter of fact.

[stickfigure]

Yet everyone does not like equally, not by a longshot. We have sites like snopes and polifact. Maybe not perfect, but better than postmodern nonsense like "there is no truth".

[cwkoss]

This elevation of the credibility of snopes and politifact would make it more damaging when they choose to editorialize.

People who share political ideologies with these sites tend to overestimate their accuracy and underestimate their displayed bias.

[cm2187]

Authenticated?

[sschueller]

Why not just "Influential" since that is all people really care about.