Editing Background check (section)

== Social media ==
Employers could use social media as tool to conduct a background check on an applicant.<ref name=":0" /> An employer could check the applicant's [[Facebook]], [[Twitter]], and [[LinkedIn]] accounts to see how the applicant behaves outside of work. U.S. employers are legally prohibited from taking into account anything they discover about a person's marital status, sexual orientation, religion, or political views when making the final decision to hire or not hire the applicant.<ref>{{Citation|chapter=Employer Brand Positioning and Differentiation|date=2015-09-26|pages=109–121|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc.|isbn=9781119208051|doi=10.1002/9781119208051.ch10|title=Employer Brand Management}}</ref>
Some companies provide Media Mentions Reports collected from open sources including Social Media public accounts.