LinkedIn might be using a patent that would curtail fibs on the popular professional networking and job search website. LinkedIn filed a 2013 patent by Lucas Myslinski for an “Interactive Fact Checking System,” which “automatically monitors, processes, fact checks information, and indicates a status of the information,” according to the patent’s description. According to The Daily Dot, it’s unlikely for the system to work on its own. “Verifying every little detail on a person’s résumé is tedious and likely difficult to do in a fully automated way. Still, it shows a step in the direction of removing some of the falsehoods that clutter the Web, even if these ones are more personal.”

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