Facebook has deleted over 1.5 billion fake accounts just this year
In the period between April and September of this year, Facebook has terminated some 1.5 billion fake accounts from its network and deleted 2.1 billion pieces of spam.
Facebook shared the staggering number in its Community Standards Report. The report breaks down how Facebook has dealt with issues like adult nudity, hate speech, terrorist propaganda, violent and graphic content and fake accounts.
According to Facebook many fake accounts are the direct result of cyber attacks.
The social network has gotten much better at recognizing and preventing violating content even before people on the network have seen and reported it. According to Facebook's report some 95.9% of the violating content was dealt with before it was reported.
Facebook is under constant scrutiny concerning the so called fake news propaganda. It also came under fire for a recent security breach, which affected 50 million accounts.
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- nigerianprince
- 20 Nov 2018
- 7k7
I don't understand what you're trying to say. I replied to someone who said FB promotes right wing Pro- American ideology. Political, or any other promotion is directly dependent on how neural networks operate, and they operate equally for any politi...
- AnonD-762416
- 19 Nov 2018
- JbS
The point where you confirmed your negative trollish "opinion" to someone calling moderating bot spam as negative.
- Anonymous
- 19 Nov 2018
- XMp
It’s like everyone else’s wallpaper looks good.