POC: an automated method for detecting fake accounts on social networks

[https://github.com/tomwillcode/Detecting\_Fake\_Accounts](https://github.com/tomwillcode/Detecting_Fake_Accounts)

Accounts impersonating other people (name, photos) are a common thing on social networks these days. In this repo we see a method for detecting these fake accounts with a human out of the loop (for the most part).

the method works like this:

1. Map every user to a "unique name identifer" (UNI) so that any unneccessary characters are removed: "Jeff Bezos" -> 'jeffbezos', and 'Real Jeff Bezos' -> 'jeffbezos', and 'jeff\_bezos' -> 'jeffbezos'
2. Merge verified accounts with …

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