Social Media Background Checks: Employers and Employees Full Guide
June 4, 2025
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Built for Real Risk. Designed for Deep Insight.
Ferretly's AI-powered social media screening platform empowers industries and government agencies to uncover critical behavioral insights for trusted individuals. Explore key sectors below to learn more.
Elevating workplace culture with Ferretly
Ferretly removes digital blindspots by helping you align candidate character to corporate values. By surfacing behaviors from online public interactions, companies can make more informed decisions about who they choose to represent their brand.
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Features
Features to fortify your brand
Profile Discovery Engine
With avatar matching, name correlation, and a billion+ OSINT profile database, Ferretly pinpoints your subject’s online presence accurately—even when they try to hide it.
AI-powered Insights
Our ML algorithms detect nuanced behaviors—like threats, hate, bias, and violence—across text and images without relying on outdated keyword lists. Less noise. More clarity.
Image and Meme Detection
Detect drug use, nudity, extremist symbols, violent imagery—even memes and gestures. Customize detection rules to match your risk tolerance.
Custom Legal Reports
All reports follow FCRA, EEOC, and GDPR guidelines. Tailor them to your brand, region, and internal policy with your logo, colors, and chosen timeframes.
Multilingual Coverage
With support for over 200+ languages, Ferretly detects behaviors across linguistic boundaries—ideal for diverse hiring markets and international compliance.
Continuous Screening
Monitor behavior over time with automated summaries. Get notified if risky posts appear—customizable by keyword, category, and frequency.
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Integrations
Integrates with the most widely used platforms
Industry Spotlight
Explore our latest industry case study
Take an in depth look at how one company could have reduced their risk by incorporating social media screening
Testimonials
Don’t take our word for it. See what our clients say.
"Social media screenings are a valuable part of our hiring process, offering insight into a candidate’s professionalism, communication style, and alignment with company values. They help us identify potential red flags and ensure a well-rounded view beyond the resume and interview."
"The service provided by the Ferretly team offers unprecedented customer service and the system is easy to use. This is a crucial tool I have used for many projects large and small and they always deliver as promised."
"More and more people are requesting we check for a social media presence of potential applicants. It has been very helpful. Ferretly allows us to include another form of screening to our clients.
