Advocate for Facilitating Verification for the Online Presence of an Entity

A method for facilitating verification of an online presence of a particular entity, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• receiving a request to verify the online presence of the particular entity, the request comprising at least one identifier identifying the particular entity;
• verifying the particular entity as an authoritative source for verification of the particular entity's online presence by (i) querying an entity database using the at least one identifier, (ii) obtaining an entity record from the entity database comprising previously verified contact information for the particular entity, (iii) passing a verification code to the particular entity using the previously verified contact information, and (iv) receiving the verification code from the particular entity;
• identifying a set of service providers that host part of the particular entity's online presence by (i) searching a plurality of service providers and (i) determining the set of service providers from the plurality of service providers that host at least one of information relating to the particular entity and an account of the particular entity that form the online presence of the particular entity;
• and
• providing, to each service provider of the set of service providers, notice that the service provider hosts an unverified online presence of the particular entity, wherein the unverified online presence comprises at least one of information and an account relating to the particular entity that has not been verified by the particular entity.

A verification system comprising at least one server with one or more processors and non-transitory computer-readable memory, the verification system performing a computer-implemented method for facilitating verification of an online presence of a particular entity, the computer-implemented method comprising:

• obtaining verified information from the particular entity, the verified information comprising information that the particular entity approves for inclusion as part of the particular entity's online presence;
• identifying a set of a plurality of service providers hosting an online presence of the particular entity;
• scrapping information from the online presence of the particular entity at each service provider of the set of service providers;
• comparing the verified information with information that is scrapped from an online presence of the particular entity at a particular service provider;
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• notifying the particular service provider that it hosts an unverified online presence of the particular entity when the verified information does not match with the information that is scrapped from the online presence of the particular entity at the particular service provider.