Building up a Verified Page on Facebook Using Information Transparency Guidelines

  • Alexandre Pinheiro
  • Claudia Cappelli
  • Cristiano Maciel
Conference paper
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10283)

Abstract

Online credibility is a quality pursued by users, business and brands on Internet. Having a verified page on Facebook means improvement of the social web presence, reliability and reinforcement of security against impersonations of identity, unwanted fake pages and spams. Since the Facebook’s page verification request has become more complex and the requirements to receive a verified page badge are uncertain, this paper describes the use of foundations of transparency on information systems to fulfill the data on the forms of the application for verification to improve the success in receiving the verified page status.

Keywords

Transparency Facebook Social networks Verifiability Pages 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Alexandre Pinheiro
    • 1
  • Claudia Cappelli
    • 1
  • Cristiano Maciel
    • 2
  1. 1.Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIORio de JaneiroBrazil
  2. 2.Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMTCuiabáBrazil

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