Facebook has already removed more than 2 billion fake accounts this year

Facebook's fake account problem keeps getting bigger.

The company is removing more fake accounts than ever, taking down more than 2 billion accounts so far in 2019 alone, Facebook disclosed in a new transparency report.

Company executives said there's been a sharp uptick in the number of fake accounts created this year. There were 2.19 billion accounts removed during the first quarter of 2019, nearly double the 1.2 billion removed during the fourth quarter of 2018.

That rise was largely due to spammers and other "bad actors who attempt to create large volumes of accounts at one time," Facebook's VP of Integrity Guy Rosen wrote in a blog post. Read more...