Facebook has acquired government ID authentication startup Confirm, amid broader efforts to confirm the identities on its social network to protect users and political elections worldwide. "We are ...

Facebook just purchased a startup that allows its customers to quickly verify that someone's identification documentation is authentic. It's unclear at this time what Facebook plans to do with the ...

The acquisition of the three-year-old startup comes with no actual explanation of what the social media giant's plans are. But we do know that it has something to do with keeping the community safe.