Facebook Tests New Safety Features

Mashable reported that the impersonation alerts tool is live in three-quarters of the world, while the photo checkup feature is live in India and select countries in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia.

The impersonation alerts tool works as follows, according to Mashable: If Facebook detects that a user is impersonating another user, the “victim” will receive a notification alerting them about the suspicious profile, and they will be prompted to tell the social network if that profile is indeed an impersonation, using their personal information, or if it legitimately belongs to another user.

Mashable added that although the process is automated, flagged profiles are manually reviewed by Facebook employees, and Antigone Davis, the social network’s head of global safety, told Mashable:

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