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In early January 2017 a rumor swept Facebook asserting that Facebook security people were being paid to watch individual accounts: According to that rumor, entering the term Facebook Security into Facebook's block users field would reveal a list of people whom the social network had engaged to furtively monitor your activity, and each of whom had to be individually blocked by you to prevent them from spying on you: However, following these instructions does nothing to uncover or block the (non-existent) Facebook security personnel who are supposedly monitoring your online activities. Entering the term Facebook Security into Block Users search box simply returns profiles of [users] who have used those particular words somewhere on their profile [or] in a place that’s visible to the individual, as in a public post. The list returned by this search neither includes people who are furtively following you, nor persons employed to spy on you by Facebook security. In September 2017, this rumor took on a slightly new form (one which eliminated the paranoid reference to Facebook security):
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