Social media background check
Everything they posted.
Including what they deleted.
A one-time, full-history review of a person’s public social content across twelve platforms — read in the original language, categorised into risk types, and traced back to the exact post.
Read this first
This is not a tool for hiring decisions.
Using social media screening to decide on employment, housing, credit or insurance is regulated in the US by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and requires a licensed consumer reporting agency with formal consent, dispute and adverse-action processes. CreatorScore is not a consumer reporting agency and these reports are not FCRA-compliant. We vet creators for brand partnerships — a commercial decision, not a consumer report. If you are screening a job candidate, please use an FCRA-regulated provider instead.
The whole history
The post that ends a campaign is never on page one.
Brand crises almost never come from what a creator posted this month. They come from something years old that someone else found first.
Depth
Back to the first post, not the last hundred
Vetting tools sample a recent window because it is cheap. A background check reads the entire public timeline on every platform the creator runs — and the risk is disproportionately in the old material, written before they had anything to lose.
Deleted content
Including what they took down
We check web archives for posts that no longer exist on the profile. A deleted post is still screenshot-able, still quotable, and still the thing a journalist surfaces the week your campaign goes live.
Recovered from web archive
captured 14 Mar 2021 · removed by creator
Deleting a post removes it from the feed, not from the internet.
Spoken audio
What they said, not what they captioned
Speech-to-text across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram video. Captions are written for the algorithm; the risk is usually in the sentence spoken forty seconds into a vlog.
The caption said “fun day 🎉”.
On-screen text
Text inside the image
Memes, stitched replies and screenshots carry the message in pixels, not in the caption field. We read those frames.
A caption can be clean while the image says something else entirely.
Findings
Categorised, never scored
Nineteen risk types, each with a count and the posts behind it. No number, no grade — a different question from how good a creator is.
Coverage
We tell you what we could not read
A private account, a dead video link, a platform that returned nothing — you see it. A clear result earned off a partial read is not a clear result.
32% of this creator’s videos had no spoken audio at all — music only. We say so, instead of quietly counting it against them.
Auditability
Every finding traced to the post behind it
A flag you cannot verify is a rumour. Each finding links to the exact post, frame or line — and the image is copied into our own storage the moment it is flagged, because platform links expire within days and legal may ask months later.
Platform image links expire in days. Ours are copied to storage the moment a post is flagged, so the proof is still there when legal asks.
Global by default
A creator who doesn't post in English
is not a lower risk. They're an unread one.
Most brand-safety tools read English, translate the rest, and hand you a clean report either way. A blank scan and a clear scan look identical on the page — and only one of them is true.
Machine translation flattens register. Sarcasm, irony and in-group teasing come out reading as sincere — so a joke gets flagged as an attack, and a real attack delivered deadpan comes out clean.
We run detection in the original language, then translate only the evidence we show you.
The same word is affectionate in São Paulo and a slur in Lisbon. A term reclaimed inside a community is an insult from outside it. A wordlist cannot tell who is speaking or to whom.
Severity is judged with the speaker, the audience and the region in frame — not by string match.
A stance that is unremarkable in one market is a boycott trigger in another. Australia's under-16 social media ban, EU alcohol rules, Gulf modesty norms — none of these appear in an American brand-safety taxonomy.
Findings carry the local context so you can decide, instead of a verdict that assumes your market.
27
interface languages
6
OCR scripts on-screen
100+
languages transcribed
Why this is a background-check problem specifically. A monitoring score watches what a creator posts next. A background check reads what they posted a decade ago — in the language they used then, in a culture that may have moved since. Getting that wrong in either direction costs someone a partnership.
Two tiers
Pay once, per creator.
No seat, no subscription, no minimum. The difference between the two is whether the creator takes part — not how hard we look.
Quick
$19.99
public content
Verified
$29.99
creator-authorised
Verified means no scraping of audience data — the creator connects their accounts and we analyse what they authorised. It does not mean a lighter analysis: transcription, frame-by-frame video and visual ML all still run. Neither tier reads audience comments.
Not the same product
A background check is not a score.
Background check
One payment. Reads the entire history once and returns categorised findings with evidence. No number is produced. Use it before you sign.
CreatorScore
A 1–100 trust score across the creator's whole cross-platform footprint, kept current with ongoing monitoring and alerts. Use it to manage a roster over time.
Common questions
What is a social media background check?
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A social media background check reviews everything a person has posted publicly — captions, images, video, and text burned into frames — to find content that could create risk for an organisation associating with them. For brand partnerships, that means scanning a creator's full history across every platform they use and categorising what turns up: hate speech, violence, NSFW imagery, substance promotion, public feuds, undisclosed sponsorships, legal issues. A thorough check reads the entire timeline rather than a recent sample, and recovers posts the person has already deleted.
Can I use a social media background check for hiring?
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Not with CreatorScore. Using social media screening for employment, housing, credit or insurance decisions is regulated in the United States by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which requires the provider to be a consumer reporting agency with specific consent, dispute and adverse-action processes. CreatorScore is not a consumer reporting agency and our reports are not FCRA-compliant. We vet creators for brand partnerships, which is a commercial decision, not a consumer report. If you need screening for hiring, use a licensed FCRA-regulated provider.
How far back does a social media background check go?
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A meaningful one goes back to the beginning of the account. Most tools sample the most recent posts because it is cheap, but the content that causes problems is rarely recent — it is the post written years earlier, before the person had an audience or anything to lose. CreatorScore reads the full public timeline on every platform and additionally checks web archives for posts that no longer appear on the profile, because deleting a post removes it from the feed but not from the internet.
Does a social media background check find deleted posts?
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It can, and this is often the most valuable part. When a post is removed from a profile it frequently survives in public web archives, and it certainly survives in the screenshots of anyone who saw it. CreatorScore checks archived captures and reports what it recovers, with the capture date, so you can see both what was posted and that it was later taken down — which is itself informative.
Do you check content in languages other than English?
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Yes. Most tools translate everything into English and then scan it, which loses the register — sarcasm and in-group teasing come out reading as sincere, and a genuine attack delivered deadpan comes out clean. CreatorScore runs detection in the original language and translates only the evidence it shows you, judging severity with the speaker, audience and region in frame. The same word can be affectionate in one country and a slur in another, and a term reclaimed within a community is an insult from outside it.
Does the person know they are being checked?
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Only if you choose the Verified tier. The Quick check ($19.99) analyses public content only, needs no participation and sends no notification. The Verified check ($29.99) requires the creator to connect their own accounts, so it is consented by definition and analyses first-party content they authorised. Which is appropriate depends on where you are in the conversation with them.
Vetting a creator specifically? See the influencer background check
Vet your next creator
before you sign the deal.
One score across every platform, every risk named and traced to the post that caused it. Make the call in minutes — and back it up with evidence.