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How verification will work on Republic
Who qualifies for a checkmark, what each checkmark means, and what happens when a government official leaves office.
Republic is updating verification to distinguish government accounts, official organization accounts, and the personal accounts of well-known public figures. For government accounts, what happens to the checkmark when someone leaves office depends on who owns the account.
Government verification
Republic verifies official government and multilateral accounts in the categories below.
- National officials: Presidents, monarchs, prime ministers, and their deputies and spouses; cabinet members and ministers and their deputies; national legislators; lead government spokespeople; and ambassadors.
- State officials: Governors, chief ministers, and officials in equivalent positions. Equivalent roles also qualify at the national level.
- Government bodies: Agencies, ministries and their departments, legislatures and their committees, embassies, and consulates at the national, state, or local level, as applicable.
- Multilateral bodies and officials: Intergovernmental and supranational organizations and agencies at the global, regional, or national level, as well as the leaders and deputies of global intergovernmental organizations.
For a qualifying officeholder, an account used in an official capacity can be one of two types:
Official office account. The office operates the account, and it remains dedicated to official business. When the officeholder leaves, Republic archives the outgoing office account. The archive keeps its government checkmark as a record of the account’s official status during that time.
Official office accounts must use a handle that combines the officeholder’s name with the title or abbreviation customary for the office. For example, a senator uses
@SenName, a representative uses @RepName, and a member of parliament uses @NameMP.Official personal account. The officeholder owns the account and uses it for official duties while in office. When they leave, they can keep using the same account. Republic removes its government checkmark and does not automatically archive it. The account can qualify separately for a blue checkmark under the personal verification rules below.
Organization verification
Only an organization’s official accounts qualify for an organization checkmark. For example, CNN’s official account can qualify for the organization checkmark. Its CEO’s personal account does not qualify for an organization checkmark. It can qualify for a blue checkmark if it meets the personal verification criteria.
Personal verification
The blue checkmark is for personal accounts that authentically represent well-known, identifiable public figures.
Former presidents, former vice presidents, former speakers, former heads of state, and former heads of government are always entitled to blue verification on their authentic personal accounts. Leaving office still ends their government verification on those accounts.
Account affiliations
An affiliation shows an account’s relationship to a parent organization. Republic displays the parent’s badge beside the account’s checkmark when the affiliation is public. Select the affiliation badge to open the parent organization’s profile.
Each account must meet the eligibility rules for its own checkmark. The affiliation identifies the relationship and can appear with any of the three checkmarks:
- A government account can show its government checkmark alongside the badge of the government body it belongs to. For example, a ministry’s official account can show its connection to the national government.
- An organization account can show its organization checkmark alongside the badge of its parent organization. For example, an official subsidiary account can show which company owns it.
- A personal account can show its blue checkmark alongside the badge of an organization it represents. A well-known CEO can qualify for a blue checkmark and show an affiliation with their company. The company’s own official account is eligible for the organization checkmark.
To request an affiliation, choose your account’s verification type in Verification, select the parent organization, and provide public evidence of the relationship for Republic to review.