Posted on 05/15/2018 7:49:28 PM PDT by upchuck
Facebook axed 583 million fake accounts in the first three months of 2018, the social media giant said Tuesday, detailing how it enforces "community standards" against sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech.
Responding to calls for transparency after the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Facebook said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.
Despite this, the group said fake profiles still make up 3-4 percent of all active accounts.
It claimed to detect almost 100 percent of spam and to have removed 837 million posts assimilated to spam over the same period.
Facebook pulled or slapped warnings on nearly 30 million posts containing sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech during the first quarter.
Improved technology using artificial intelligence had helped it act on 3.4 million posts containing graphic violence, nearly three times more than it had in the last quarter of 2017.
In 85.6 percent of the cases, Facebook detected the images before being alerted to them by users, said the report, issued the day after the company said about 200 apps had been suspended on its platform as part of an investigation into misuse of private user data.
The figure represents between 0.22 and 0.27 percent of the total content viewed by Facebook's more than two billion users from January through March.
"In other words, of every 10,000 content views, an estimate of 22 to 27 contained graphic violence," the report said.
Responses to rule violations include removing content, adding warnings to content that may be disturbing to some users while not violating Facebook standards; and notifying law enforcement in case of a "specific, imminent and credible threat to human life".
Improved IT also helped Facebook take action against 1.9 million posts containing terrorist propaganda, a 73 percent increase. Nearly all were dealt with before any alert was raised, the company said.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-facebook-million-fake-accounts.html
Then why can’t I get the final divorce from them ... is there a secret?
I get emails almost daily telling me what I am missing and I left about 7 years ago
What do I have to do to them for them to purge me?
Vulnerable to what? Don’t put anything on there you don’t to others to see.
You could try some security against these f+ckface ass+oles.
Thank God I’ve never joined it.
Believe it or not, first go on youtube and look up how to delete your account permanently. Not that it will work, but it’s worth a try.
Then PM mail me to find out other programs to protect yourself. There are many and various and all free.
I’ve learned about most, if not all right here on FR.
But really? Go yo windows ping. Look up the archives if you must. These people are windows savants. (They know how to control crappy windows, which we are almost all forced to use)
Of course I meant “go to”. Sorry about that.
My dog’s account is still active...
I bet I am one of those “fake” accounts as I permanently deleted my account. I doubt I am alone.
I have trouble believing this because I admin two groups of 16,000+ members each and see fake accounts asking for membership all the time. I also see friends of friends with fake names.
I only post on Facebook to let my relatives know I’m still alive and kicking. Not from any passion for the platform.
Who’s kidding who?
Facebook is concocting stories about “deleting accounts” b/c Facebook is looking at criminal charges for cooking the books.
Facebook misrepresented its reader base to advertisers.....
........and investors.............
CONTACT enforcement @SEC.gov
FACEBOOK IS SO PHONY——Facebook “says” they axed 583 million fake accounts in the first three months of 2018, the social media giant said Tuesday, detailing how it enforces “community standards” against sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech.
Facebook misrepresented itself to Investors and advertisers. This is a criminal offense.
REFERENCE A couple of newspapermen were jailed b/c they cooked the books WRT readership ——enabling to charge more for ads.
CONTACT: enforcement @SEC.gov
Facebook Purity. It's a browser plug-in that eliminates all the ads and unwanted bullshit from Facebook. Completely customizes Facebook to be the way you want it, not the way Mark Suckerberg wants you to see it. Been using it for years, love it.
No more ads, no more "newsfeed" and no more bullshit.
I was wondering when someone would pick up on that! You're exactly correct.
How in the world can Fakebook axe 583,000,000 accounts w/o their investors stopping to think "hey, wait a minute! Fakebook claims to have 2 BILLION users and they just axed over 25% of them! WTF!"
I for one hope the complaints pile up!
Maybe they can help us purge the voter rolls....start with the dems .... we’ll finish the rest.
Actually, it’s very simple to setup a fake account. All you have to do is have multiple email addresses or multiple cell phones.
Facebook will follow you no matter what.
Have you ever notice how relevant ads about you appear when you surf on the Mozilla Firefox browser. Google and Facebook probably have arrangements with Mozilla to help each other out identify you are. The industry is incestuous.
Plus Fakebook portrays the axing as if its acting in the public interest.
Investors should be mailing Facebook annual reports to their attorneys as we type.
The SEC does not like falsified annual reports.
CONTACT: enforcement @SEC.gov
Facebook misrepresented itself to advertisers so that it could charge more for ads. This is a criminal offense.
REFERENCE A couple of newspapermen were jailed b/c they cooked the books WRT readership —— to charge more for ads.
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I should check my fake account to see if it still works.
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