Facebook took down more than three billion fake accounts between September 2018 and March 2019, the company said on Thursday.
"The amount of accounts we took action on increased due to automated attacks by bad actors who attempt to create large volumes of accounts at one time," Facebook's vice president of integrity Guy Rosen wrote in a blog post."We disabled 1.2 billion accounts in Q4 2018 and 2.19 billion in Q1 2019." The report follows several recent measures to fight problems that have continued to plague the platform, including fake accounts meant to influence elections in Europe, Africa and Asia. It has also recently announced an increased effort to fight white supremacy after fielding criticism on that front, especially after the terror attack in New Zealand that killed 51 people and was livestreamed on Facebook.
Beautiful job that is so awesome
Am I the only one who deleted my fb account for good
RUBBISH. Took mine down saying I was fake... weird, I don’t feel plastic or rubbery facebook
3 billion? What was the criteria followed ?
1/3 of all fake accounts
How many left voluntarily? 🖐
It's only going to get worse with all these pro trump bots
And conservative crybabies screamed they were being censored. Hilarious how they owned themselves
Billion!?
But they willingly allow fake news and things like the doctored video of Pelosi. They are a much bigger reason why we have a horrible president than most realize.
Wow... Into The Guiness World of Book Record
That fake number could be as high as 50% in SE Asia … just look at the profile names … what's fb doing about that?
Really how could they think they were legit in first place? MarkZuckelberg facebook
Another example of the general untrustworthy-ness of people. No wonder some refer to a dog as man's best friend.
Facebook with 2billion active accounts took down 3billion accounts like how?
And yet it won't let me cancel mine.
There is no way that can be correct. No doubt they took down that many, but no way 100% of them were fake.
that’s almost half the world’s population!
Three years too late
Totally fake
I didn’t realize CNN had so many accounts.
Bye America 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
Whatever that means
Twitter has been quiet lately too. Maybe deleting the fakes behind the scenes
Wow
Wow. That's remarkable
Anyone believe what 'company says'? 😬
HE KNEW. MAKE NO MISTAKE
One last left, the name is Donald Trump.
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