Facebook Took Down 6.6 Billion Fake Accounts

[engine]

Facebook has a new AI, a technology it calls Deep Entity Classification (DEP), which has helped it identify and ultimately take down 6.6 billion fake accounts.

Facebook's team said that DEP has already had promising results. The tool, in the months that it has been deployed on the social network, has taken down billions of fake accounts and reduced the estimated volume of spammers and scammers by 27%. Gharbaoui said that the estimated volume of fake accounts on Facebook is now 5%.

[zdnet.com...]

That's a lot of fake accounts, which i'm sure, will continue to game the system.

[RhinoFish]

Imagine the depth of the possible ad fraud... why mine for bitcoin. Hahaa!

[tangor]

Could this be an apology for Cambridge Analytics? Where the data left the house by permission (or omission of ordinary security!)...

FF 74 (just released) suggests a new FB container extension ... [webmasterworld.com...]

Might help with fakes and security and privacy, oh my!

<ain't funny, just what it is>

[Passionate]

They must remove bots and fakes