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2019-11-14 Cyber

Facebook says it removed 3.2B fake accounts in 6 months

[AlAhram] Facebook says it removed 3.2 billion fake accounts from its service from April to September, up slightly from 3 billion in the previous six months.

Nearly all of the bogus accounts were caught before they had a chance to become ``active'' users of the social network, so they are not counted in the user figures the company reports regularly. Facebook estimates that about 5% of its 2.45 billion user accounts are fake.

The company said in a report Wednesday that it removed 18.5 million instances of child nudity and sexual exploitation from its main platform in the April-September period, up from 13 million in the previous six months. It says the increase was due to improvements in detection.

The report is Facebook's fourth on standards enforcement.

The Times of Israel points out Facebook claims it deleted 5.4 billion fake accounts in past year

Posted by trailing wife 2019-11-14 00:13|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 How many millions have they shadow banned ?

Posted by TCal - ZooJerzee 2019-11-14 01:52|| 2019-11-14 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 errr....numbers.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-11-14 08:53|| 2019-11-14 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder if at least part of this is cover for people deleting their own accounts and leaving the service.

Posted by Iblis 2019-11-14 10:57|| 2019-11-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 FB pulled nearly 1/2 the world population from their site? Is someone putting pressure on FB to clean up their act?

Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-14 14:45|| 2019-11-14 14:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Included 10 million genuine conservative accounts amid the 3.2 billion gangue. No one noticed.

Posted by KBK 2019-11-14 20:37|| 2019-11-14 20:37|| Front Page Top

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