Social Media Background Check

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Learn how your online profile looks to others, including potential employers.

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What is a Social Media Background Check?

A social media background screening includes research on online websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and news articles where the candidate has an online presence. A social media check helps in getting a better idea of who a job applicant is. Social media background checks can also be considered as an advanced means of learning more about job applicants or networking with them in their social life.

Know about how your online persona looks like

The social media background check report will show your behaviors towards hate speech bullying, violence, harassment, and much more. Check out Peopletrail's sample social media background check report below.

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Social Media Risk Classifications

Peopletrail uses machine learning to analyze social media posts and images for specific types of risks. When you run a social media background check, the posts are retrieved from your subject's associated social media profiles. Every post and image is analyzed for one or more of the 12 risk classifications.

Peopletrail flags a post when there is at least one risk category with a probability beyond a set threshold. For example, a post may have a probability of a Toxic language of 65% and also a Hate Speech of 73%. In this case, the flag will indicate Hate Speech. It is possible to have a post and an associated image that gets flagged at the same time. In this case, the flag will indicate both the reason for the post text and the image triggering one of the risk classifications.

For reposts/retweets, likes, and replies, we analyze both the text and comments of the original poster on the re-post from your subject in determining risk. Likewise, Peopletrail analyzes images included in a report.

How we screen your data on social media?

We analyze the following screening characteristics while running a social media background check.

Hate Speech

Definition

Derogatory, abusive, and/or threatening statements toward a specific group of people typically on the basis of race, religion or sexual orientation.

Example

“My boss is a jew and I hate Jews.”

Insults and Bullying

Definition

Name-calling or derogatory statements toward an individual about their physical characteristics such as weight, height, looks, intelligence, etc.

Example

“Have you fallen on your head as a child? You are pathetic.”

Narcotics

Definition

Statements related to drugs and/or drug use including slang words, street names, and phrases.

Example

“Can’t wait until I get off work today, gonna get high.”

Obscene Language

Definition

Statements considered on the fringes of mainstream values. Typically statements considered on either the far-left or far-right of the ideological spectrum. These often focus on specific issues such as abortion, environmental, immigration, government, etc.

Example

“Climate change is real and we need to kill all the cows and eat all of the babies to keep our earth from dying.”