FQL user table: is_verified vs verified

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I assume one of these is the celebrity kind of verified and the other refers to whether a user has clicked an activation link, but can't find any official documentation aside from the following:

is_verified
bool    
Whether the user is verified

verified
bool    
Indicates whether or not Facebook has verified the user

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/user

According to this question is_verified is the celebrity kind (though the answer doesn't sound super confident about that), but if that's the case I can't find anything about verified ... e.g. if this field is false should I assume the user is more likely to be a spammer and ask to confirm their email address?

Thanks!

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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verified tells if the user did one of three things in Facebook:

verified a credit card
verified the user phone number by SMS
registers for mobile

Here is the documentation.

See that not necessarily the email has been verified

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Oct 17 '13 at 03:46

neves

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Thank you! Very informative. Sorry for the late acceptance, I had kinda given up on this. – user2727399 Nov 17 '13 at 05:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 30 '13 at 21:13

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The verification just assures that it's the official page of the celebrity. If it's not verified that doesn't mean it's a spam, just that it's created by fans.

answered Aug 30 '13 at 21:13

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Right, I assume that's what one of these fields is for, but surely both ambiguous (is_)verified fields aren't used for the same thing. Not being a celebrity, I can see if I query my own account `verified` comes back true. So now my question is, under what conditions is the `verified` field false? – user2727399 Aug 31 '13 at 06:17

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 11 '17 at 15:44

is_verified means they are a specific person in real life (maybe a celebrity would get this status?) while verified means they had their account verified by phone or credit card (which only means they are probably a physical person and not a bot with a fake profile, but they could still be lying about themselves in their profile).

To elaborate on the documentation link as indicated by @neves...

verified: FB has manually verified the authenticity of their identity manually.

is_verified: user taken any of these steps:

Register for mobile
Confirm their account via SMS
Enter a valid credit card

FQL user table: is_verified vs verified

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