Strategy question

You’re a Product Manager at Instagram and you've been asked if Instagram should stop supporting the verified accounts feature—what do you do?

Practice this question out loud. An AI interviewer asks it, follows up like a real interviewer would, and scores your answer. Type or speak.

What this question tests

Strategic judgment on removing a trust feature, weighing user impact against platform integrity and business goals.

Clarify why this is being asked: cost of running the verification program, or a strategic shift like consolidating with Meta verification.
List who relies on the badge: public figures, journalists, and businesses who use it to prove authenticity to followers.
Weigh the risk: removing verification could increase impersonation and reduce trust in high profile accounts.
Consider an alternative: keep authenticity signals but fold verification into a broader paid or account-security-based system.
Recommend against a full removal, proposing instead a redesigned, lower cost verification tied to Meta Verified.
Define success as impersonation report rate and creator trust survey scores after any change.

Names the concrete groups affected, journalists and public figures who depend on the badge to prove authenticity.
Weighs a real risk, rising impersonation and scams, against the operational cost savings from stopping the program.
Proposes a middle path, folding verification into Meta Verified, rather than a binary keep or cut decision.
Picks impersonation reports as a trackable metric to validate the decision after the fact.

Answering with a flat yes or no without weighing user trust against cost.
Ignoring that this is now tied to Meta's broader paid verification strategy across apps.

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