Systems and methods for verifying social media accounts to prevent identity-based attacks on social media platforms

Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for verifying social media accounts to prevent identity-based attacks on social media platforms may include (i) detecting identity data for an owner of a set of auxiliary social media accounts on a group of client devices, (ii) verifying, a core social media account, based at least in part on the detected identity data, (iii) linking the auxiliary social media accounts to the core social media account, (iv) signing a social media post originating from a linked auxiliary social media account by storing a unique identification of the social media post as a record on a publicly readable permissioned ledger (e.g., a blockchain), and (v) performing a security action that prevents an identity-based attack against third parties accessing the social media post by confirming that the social media post is legitimate based on the record. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.