Facebook figures five percent of accounts are fake

This file photo taken on February 18, 2019 shows the US social media Facebook logo displayed on a tablet in Paris.SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook said it recently disabled billions of bogus accounts set up by"bad actors" and that five percent of active accounts are likely fakes.

Facebook disabled 2.19 billion accounts in the first quarter of this year, nearly double the number of accounts nixed in the prior three-month period, according to vice president of integrity Guy Rosen."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," Rosen said.

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