Facebook will make accounts with a 'large audience' verify their location

Facebook will soon make some of its most influential accounts verify that they are who they say they are.

New rules will require Facebook pages with a "large audience" to verify their location or else they will be barred from publishing new posts, the company announced Friday.

The company plans to start notifying affected Facebook accounts today. When Facebook flags an account as needing to go through this additional authorization process, account holders will have a few weeks to provide proof of their location (by activating location services on their phones) and enable two-factor authentication on the account. Read more...