Facebook reports deleting 3 billion fake profiles

24 May 2019

Facebook reports deleting 3 billion fake profiles

Facebook reports deleting 3 billion fake profilesFacebook (FB) has issued an "Enforcement Report", where it has mentioned that it has removed more than 3 billion fake accounts* between October 2018 and March 2019.

These numbers are twice as many as in the previous 6 months.
 	FB has also removed 7 million 'hate speech' posts.
 	People have been worried that big social media platforms like Fb, Twitter, Whatsapp etc are being used by anti-social elements to incite violence, spread fake news and sell 'regulated' stuff like drugs and guns.
 	To this, Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg has said, "The success of the company has allowed us to fund these efforts at a massive level. I think the amount of our budget that goes toward our safety systems... I believe is greater than Twitter's whole revenue this year."

Fake Accounts

These fake accounts are created to spread spam, fake news, terrorist propaganda and other objectionable material.
 	Nearly all of them are identified and blocked before they have had a chance to become 'active' and cause harm.
 	Still, Facebook fears that quite a few of them are slipping through the cracks.
 	Facebook's detection tools are getting better, but so are the efforts of the creators of these fake accounts.

Facebook employs thousands of people to review posts, photos, comments and videos for violations. Some things are also detected using artificial intelligence.

*Fake Accounts: Accounts created using automated methods by the computer. They don't belong to any particular person and are not traceable.

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