Facebook announced that it has removed over 3.2 billion fake accounts in the April-September period along with taking action on 11.4 million hate speech posts in the same period. The social media company says that it has removed 5.4 billion fake accounts and 15.5 million hate speech posts in total since January.
“Over the past two quarters, we have improved our ability to detect and block attempts to create fake, abusive accounts. We can estimate that every day, we prevent millions of attempts to create fake accounts using these detection systems,” the social networking giant said on Wednesday.
The company said that the majority of these accounts were caught within minutes of registration before they became a part of Facebook monthly active user (MAU) population.
“Our proactive rate remained above 99 per cent for both quarters. Prevalence for fake accounts continues to be estimated at approximately 5 per cent of our worldwide monthly active users (MAU) on Facebook,” said the company.Read More..
