How to go about authorisation and two-factor authentication on Facebook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVevbqNGBwQ Protecting our online accounts is an essential step in today's digital age.

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Protecting our online accounts is an essential step in today's digital age. Facebook, as one of the largest social networks, is constantly raising its vigilance and paying attention to account security. Several years ago Facebook introduced identity verification for high-reach accounts. You need authorisation only if you plan to create ads about social issues, elections or politics. Thanks to two-factor authentication it will be transparent that it is an advertisement, and with such an ad it will also be stated who paid for it.

Two-factor authentication - how to authorise an account

If you wish to authorise your account, you need to do so by providing two documents with your full name. At least one of these documents (which may be an identity card, passport, birth certificate or driving licence) must also contain a photo or date of birth besides the name. Do not be alarmed by that, it is only an emphasis on your safety and the safety of users of the social networks Facebook and Instagram.

Through THIS LINK you can authorise your account so that you can create ads about political topics, for instance. All you have to do is scroll to the end and upload a photo of your identity document there.

Facebook – uploading an ID document and the Send button during account authorization

Setting up two-factor authentication

Through THIS LINK you can set up two-factor authentication on Facebook, which is good for securing your own profile and also the ad accounts you manage on Facebook. The procedure is very simple.

After clicking the link the following page will appear. You choose the option Two-factor authentication.

Meta Accounts Centre – Password and security with Two-factor authentication highlighted

In the next step you choose which account you want to set two-factor authentication up for.

Meta – choosing a Facebook or Instagram account to set up two-factor authentication

Then you click Try Another Way.

Meta – Get your security key screen with the Try Another Way option

You choose the option of an SMS message, which will come to the telephone number you have in the account.

Meta – choosing text message code verification when setting up two-factor authentication

And that is it! After these few simple steps you have set up two-factor authentication.

Setting up another method of two-factor authentication is no problem. Nor is it a problem to change the telephone number in such authentication.

So now your account's security is taken care of. Should you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch.

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Veronika Kseňáková

Certified PPC Specialist

I got into online marketing thanks to an internship at Invelity, where the topic started to interest me. Since I had never had any direct experience with digital marketing before the internship, everything was completely new to me. Now I work at Invelity and I am glad that I can keep learning and improving in this field.