Sometimes a pseudonym is the only protective measure some users can take. Your Facebook profile name, photo, and banner image are always public. There’s no way to make this information accessible to verified friends only, and sometimes that’s all it takes to end up in a world of trouble. As it stands, the authentic name policy too often is used as a tool of harassment, and Facebook continues allowing that to happen. The fake name reporting process is opaque and imperfect. Facebook has said it does not use algorithms to crawl through usernames and instead relies on snitches.What Facebook has done is create a system that forces compliance or isolation. And worst of all, it places the power with harassers
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