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Facebook removed 1.5 billion fake accounts between April and September

Friday, November 16, 2018 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Facebook removed 1.5 billion fake accounts between April and September

Facebook released its community standards report today, in which it detailed how it dealt with fake news, spam, hate speech, and terrorist propaganda on its platform. The company noted that, between April and September 2018, it removed a whopping 1.5 billion fake accounts. The social network got rid of 800 million fake accounts in Q2 2018, and 754 million fake accounts in Q3. Comparatively, the company eliminated 534 million accounts in Q1 2018. That should give you a sense of the scale of its spam problem. The company says that most of these accounts are part of commercially motivated spam…

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