Facebook Removed Over 3 Billion Fake Accounts In The Last 6 Months

Mandy Seth - Jun 07, 2019

In the last 6 months, Facebook successfully removed over 3 billion fake accounts. Most of them are eradicated before they can be active

In the last six months, from October to March, Facebook successfully removed over 3 billion fake accounts, marked a double number of removal cases in comparison with the previous six months - said the company’s representative. Almost all of those accounts were removed before they become real “active” users on Facebook.

Nevertheless, in a new report, Facebook skips the information on how many fake accounts left. It means that there isn’t clear enough to prove that Facebook is getting better on managing its well-known social network or the situation is just getting worse.

Facebook-fake-account — Facebook skips the information on how many fake accounts left

Even if looking from the bright side where Facebook is indeed doing better, so are the mystic guys standing behind these made-up accounts. Facebook has been under fire for its part in public events like interfering with elections or inciting outbreaks of violence.

In fact, Facebook has been employing more and more people to review and manage the content of posts, photos, and videos, trying to eliminate any violation potential. The company also spend a huge amount of investment in developing artificial intelligence working on these issues too.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg did mention to the government on a regulation classifying clearly which is considered to be harmful content and which isn’t.

With more than 3 billion accounts has been removed (by the company, before anyone else reported it) by in the last six months, CEO Zuckerberg is going to do all the best he and his company can to clean up Facebook’s environment. Most of those removals were described as “being blocked right of their creation”. The number is double in comparison with the April-September period last year (with 1.5 billion removals reported).

Now, Facebook has nearly 2.5 billion active users per month, excluding the fake accounts (which have been deleted). Still, 5% of the figure is estimated as computer-made.

These fake accounts are known as acts from “automated attacks” of an illegal source with an attempt to generate massive amounts of made-up accounts at once. However, the company refused to reveal where “these attacks” dawned, just mention that they were from different parts of the world.