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Facebook culls three billion fake profiles
Facebook has published its latest "enforcement report", which details how many posts and accounts it took action on between October 2018 and March 2019.
During that six-month period, Facebook removed more than three billion fake accounts - more than ever before. More than seven million "hate speech" posts were removed, also a record high. For the first time, Facebook also reported how many deleted posts were appealed, and how many were put back online after review.
In a call with reporters on Thursday, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg hit back against numerous calls to break up Facebook, arguing its size made it possible to defend against the network's problems. "I don't think that the remedy of breaking up the company is going to address [the problem]," he 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."
Facebook said the rise in the number of deleted fake accounts was because "bad actors" were using automated methods to create large numbers of them. But it said it spotted and deleted a majority of them within minutes, before they had any opportunity to "cause harm". The social network will now also report how many posts were removed for selling "regulated goods" such as drugs and guns. It said it took action on more than one million posts selling guns in the six-month period covered by the report.
For some types of content, such as child sex abuse imagery, violence and terrorist propaganda, the report estimates how often such content was actually seen by people on Facebook. The report said that out of every 10,000 pieces of content viewed on Facebook:
- about 14 views were of nudity
- 25 views were of violence or graphic content
- fewer than three views were of child abuse imagery or terrorist propaganda
Overall, about 5% of the monthly active users on Facebook were fake accounts.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 25 2019, @02:52PM
Facebook has never had billions of real accounts. Maybe people made accounts and then did not like what they saw and never went back to it. Or they made a few test accounts (like we all do occasionally) to check things out.
Anyway, facebook is lying when they say they have so many billions of users per month. Those users are generated by facebook through a program to inflate actual user numbers. Also they run programs to make many accounts look like they had some activity.
And wouldn't it register on someone's radar that billions of accounts (not generated by facebook and their partners in crime) might be fake. It is like sleazy car companies that refuse to acknowledge flaws in their designs until they are in court and many people have already died. They know about the issues but fixing issues (no one yet knows about) does not make money. Same for software companies.
Are they khazar jew rats? In the case of facebook, of course they are. And they have an agenda: divide and rule.