Facebook blocked almost 5.4 billion fake accounts in 2019!

Fake profiles on Facebook – They appear again and again and have the goal of spreading political or social information, for example. As a result, false information is read, shared and spread even further.

The company invests billions of dollars every year to make Facebook a safer place for its users. It may have a negative impact on profits, “but there is no question that it is the right thing to do,” said Mark Zuckerberg. In a telephone conference, he also rejected a political demand to split up the company. This would make combating abusive content more difficult.

Millions of fake accounts prevented every day

In its current transparency report, which also included Instagram for the first time, Facebook announced that fake and misused user accounts are being increasingly better recognized. Since the beginning of the year, around 5.4 billion fake accounts have been exposed and subsequently blocked.

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Facebook has also invested heavily in improved testing mechanisms to detect fake user accounts and not allow them in the first place. This prevents millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.

There is still room for improvement in the development of these technologies and further investments are being made. However, in its report, Facebook also noted progress in the fight against posts containing content about terrorism, hate, suicide, drugs and child pornography.

What is also interesting in Facebook's transparency report is that requests from governments have increased significantly. In the first half of the year, requests for user information rose to around 129,000 requests, an increase of 16 percent. Almost 51,000 of these come from the USA, followed by India, Great Britain, Germany and France.

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Facebook: 80% of deleted hate speech was detected by software

Source: Facebook Newsroom
Article image: Shutterstock / By TY Lim


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