Facebook is partnering with security firm Websense in an effort to protect its 700 million members from malware and malicious web sites. With the Websense technology, users will now see a notification before they are taken to the link destination that warns them the site may not be trustworthy. The technology could be useful in helping users from falling for one of the many social engineering scams common on Facebook that seek to trick members into clicking on a malicious link. Almost one quarter of Facebook users who fell for a recent scam on the social network did so from their mobile device.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2129752/facebook-adds-protection-against-malicious-links.html