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Facebook Deleted 583 Million Fake Accounts in the First Three Months of 2018 (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the good-riddance dept.

Facebook said Tuesday that it had removed more than half a billion fake accounts and millions of pieces of other violent, hateful or obscene content over the first three months of 2018. From a report: In a blog post on Facebook, Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of product management, said the social network disabled about 583 million fake accounts during the first three months of this year -- the majority of which, it said, were blocked within minutes of registration. That's an average of over 6.5 million attempts to create a fake account every day from Jan. 1 to March 31. Facebook boasts 2.2 billion monthly active users, and if Facebook's AI tools didn't catch these fake accounts flooding the social network, its population would have swelled immensely in just 89 days.

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  1. Delete all the real accounts too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    that would be a good start

  2. God I hate CNET by FrankOVD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks for the news, but I gotta say I hate CNet's habit of throwing you an auto play video every time you click on a link. I'm on a slow wi-fi network and just closing the floating window doesn't stop the audio, which you can't pause until the embedded video is loaded and you find it. I wonder why they keep being this annoying. I was a fan of their website before that but then I turned my back to them because I felt like they didn't care about User Experience at all. Feels good speaking about it.

  3. Suspiciously like supression of speech by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If visibility has to be earned by sustained niceness and if bad behaviors are remembered and suitably penalized (with reduced visibility), then the social environment would be greatly improved.

    That sounds suspiciously like the suppression of free speech.

    Instead of enforcing some nebulous universal value-of-people, why not let individuals choose what they would like to see and hear?

    That way I can listen to whoever I want, and you don't have to concern yourself with whether the person I'm listening to has good social standing or not.