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May 23, 2019 09:30 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/G7oP093spkE/facebook-removed-22-billion-fake-accounts-this-year
Facebook Removed 2.2 Billion Fake Accounts This Year
Facebook released its community standards enforcement report Thursday morning, offering a much more in-depth look at the inner workings of the company than previously seen. From a report: One of the most surprising insights came from Facebook's removal of fake accounts. The company said it removed 2.2 billion accounts in the first quarter of the 2019. That's a jump of nearly double compared to the fourth quarter of 2018 when 1.2 billion accounts were removed. That number seems astronomical, especially when considering that Facebook says it has 2.38 billion monthly active users overall. The reason that the social network can boast nearly as many removals as it has active users is that it typically finds and removes bogus accounts within minutes of them signing up. As a result, Facebook estimates that only 5% of its monthly active users are fake.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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