Review of Techniques to Prevent Fake Accounts on Social Media

  • Saatvik Awasthi, Dr. Raju Shanmugam, Soumya Ranjan Jena, Atul Srivastava

Abstract

A critical part of our lives, the social network is full of online impersonation and fake accounts. In keeping with the ‘Community Standards Enforcement Report’ published by Facebook in March 2018, about 583 million fake accounts were taken down just in quarter 1 of 2018 and as many as 3-4% of its active accounts during this point were still fake. This paper reviews the various techniques available for fake profile detection and describes what are the various aspects of fake profiles on social media. It talks about the advancements in the methods to prevent and detect fake accounts in the past few years. Finally, it compares the various novel techniques available for fake profile elimination.

Published
2020-06-06
How to Cite
Saatvik Awasthi, Dr. Raju Shanmugam, Soumya Ranjan Jena, Atul Srivastava. (2020). Review of Techniques to Prevent Fake Accounts on Social Media. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 29(04), 8350 -. Retrieved from http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/30572