Facebook Took Down 1.3 Billion Fake Accounts Oct-Dec 2020

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Facebook says it took down 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December 2020, and over 100 networks of "coordinated inauthentic behaviour."

We also crack down on deceptive behavior. We’ve found that one of the best ways to fight this behavior is by disrupting the economic incentives structure behind it. We’ve built teams and systems to detect and enforce against inauthentic behavior tactics behind a lot of clickbait. We also use artificial intelligence to help us detect fraud and enforce our policies against inauthentic spam accounts.

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[zeus]

1.3 billion fake accounts, hmm is there any left then :)

[JorgeV]

Hello,

Since Facebook claims 2.8 billion active users (december 2020), and, considering these "fake" account were obviously active (otherwise, what's the point?), this means roughly 1.5 billion supposedly legitimate users, ... some users have multiple accounts too, and some of them, may not yet have been caught ...

As a matter of fact, we are 7.8 billions on earth : [worldometers.info...]

[bwnbwn]

Explains to me why FB ads ROI is so miserable. Quit all PPC IMPRESSION ADS and so forth over a year ago.
Jeeze just looked 2 years ago.
Time flies

[samwest]

Fake accounts on Fakebook...big surprise. Now with their dystopian censorship and spying, you have to be pretty slow to trust them.

[engine]

Facebook is a treasure trove for scammers and bad actors, so it's no wonder it's a target. It really needs to step up and do lots more to deal with this.
We have to remember, the users are the target, not FB itself: FB is the facilitator.
Unfortunately, many users are still sleepwalking through this period and don't realise they are giving away so much information abut themselves.

[zeus]

users write there content and are not payed. As said before never had a account and never will.

[blend27]

--As said before never had a account and never will.---

-1.... I mean I never had one either ;)


"coordinated inauthentic behaviour."

But/OR/HOW does a company get to a number of 1.6 Billion+ to realize that 'ALL THAT dATA' was sh**',

No, for realzzeseses, is their AI also trained on that 'dATA;?'

[edited by: not2easy at 11:26 pm (utc) on Mar 24, 2021]
[edit reason] No FB links, please see Charter [/edit]

[tangor]

Curious ... this has been on FB for over 10 years ... what made OCT-DEC 2020 the trigger for cleaning up the site?

[blend27]

---- what made OCT-DEC 2020---

20/20 vision ?

[lammert]

@tangor: Nothing special in 2020, just read the previous transparency reports. In 2018 Facebook took down 3.3 billion accounts, in 2019 5.4 billion. That 1.3 billion is actually less than the average over 2019.