# Identity Verification for public figures?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/identity-verification-for-public-figures/108756>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [February 9, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/identity-verification-for-public-figures/108756 "2019-02-09T17:29:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/identity-verification-for-public-figures/108756/5 "2019-02-11T00:40:41Z")

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This is a giant enormous issue to tackle. I would recommend you approach this manually similar to how twitter deals with it.

You can set custom titles on users. So once you confirmed a user really is who they say they are you can add a “Verified” title to the user. You have plenty of ways of confirming:

- If you have Twitter auth enabled you can look at the Twitter account they have associated and see if they are “verified”

- If you know the email… well that is easy you can just flag it as verified

- You can start a conversation with users and even call them in rare cases.

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