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Keep your accounts safe with Social Media Monitoring

Social Media Monitoring¹ monitors your accounts on the most popular social media sites listed below and notifies you of suspicious activity, such as changes to your account settings and risky links. It can also monitor your children's accounts§, and notify you of any potential cyberbullying, dangerous TikTok challenges, explicit content, or hate speech.²

Monitored Information for Personal and Norton Small Business (US and UK only)

Personal

  Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn® YouTube Channel® TikTok Snapchat
Account Takeover Protection P P P P P P P
Scam / Phishing     P   P P  
Malware     P   P P  
Monitor Inappropriate Content     P   P P  
Cyberbullying Content     P     P  
Dangerous Challenges           P  

Norton Small Business (US and UK only)

Social Media Monitoring for Norton Small Business gives you more robust access to monitor both personal and business accounts. To get this increased access, you will need to re-link any personal accounts you had set up for monitoring.

You will not be able to add your business accounts under your consumer subscription for Social Media Monitoring.

Account Takeover Protection Facebook
Instagram

Benefits of Social Media Monitoring

  • Account takeover protection: Your account is monitored for setting changes and suspicious posts to avoid account takeover.

  • Protection against scams or phishing: Your account is scanned for scam or malware links in your account feed, which can be used to steal or extort your data or money.³

  • Protection against inappropriate content: Your account feed, including your child's, is reviewed for posts or comments related to cyberbullying, hate speech, explicit materials, drugs, or violence.²

Add a social media account for monitoring

When you add a social media account for monitoring, Norton performs a historical review of your account for posts or comments made in the past year or up to 200 pieces of content, whichever comes first.

  1. Sign in to your account.
  2. Under the Monitored Info tab, scroll down to the Social Media Accounts section.
  3. If you haven't added any accounts for monitoring, click Get Started, and then click Add next to the social media account that you want to link.
  4. Read and understand the on-screen information.
  5. Click Link and log in to your social media account.

    Even if you have a Google account, you need to create a YouTube channel to link it to for Social Media Monitoring.

  6. Read the on-screen information and complete the linking of your account.
  7. You should confirm that your social media account is connected and continues to be monitored by signing in to your account.

Disclaimers

¹Does not include monitoring of chats or direct messages. Monitoring available in English only.
²Our service may not identify all cyberbullying, explicit content, or hate speech. Monitoring available in English only.
³Reimbursement does not apply to identity theft loss resulting, directly or indirectly, from phishing or scams.
§Not available in all countries.

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Last modified: 09/03/2025

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