X does have an optional government ID verification once you subscribe to premium, which adds an additional 'verified' indication and is necessary for additional

X does have an optional government ID verification once you subscribe to premium, which adds an additional 'verified' indication and is necessary for additional features like revenue sharing and enabling subscriptions. Admittedly, I'm not too sure how it works, I only subscribed to premium yesterday, it seems like they review something manually since I haven't received a checkmark yet, or maybe it does require the ID verification step, which I don't intend to do for now since all I wanted is editing and higher message length.