fake accounts

LAHORE: A petition seeking directives for the federal authorities and the Election Commission of Pakistan to approach Mark Zukerberg, the CEO of Facebook, to get fake accounts blocked was filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday.…

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Friday said it disrupted an international fake account operation that was firing off inauthentic "likes" and bogus comments to win friends it would then pound with spam. Facebook's security team spent six…

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Wednesday said it has started weeding out bogus accounts by watching for suspicious behavior such as repetitive posts or torrents of messages. The security improvement was described as being part of a broader…

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter said Thursday it was ramping up efforts to crack down on impersonation on the messaging platform as well as the leaking of personal, private data.