Article 5ZA8V ‘Think Before You Link’: app launched to help social media users detect fake profiles

‘Think Before You Link’: app launched to help social media users detect fake profiles

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Harry Taylor
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Ken McCallum, the director general of M15, said malicious profiles were being used on an industrial scale'

A mobile phone app has been launched that will help social media users to detect fake profiles and speed up their removal.

The Think Before You Link app will help people to spot characteristics of fraudulent profiles used by spies and other malicious actors, according to the Cabinet Office and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.

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