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
My account still exists, even though the last time I logged in was July 2017.
I created the account nearly 2 decades ago to get some info/serial number for a software program. The next time I logged in was about 15 years later. I had forgotten I even had that account until Facebook hit the news and was surprised that my account still existed.
The only reason I signed in last July was when the main FR site was down and FBk was the go-to info site.
I must be unique. I have one email address...the same one I’ve used since I subscribed to Time Warner’s Road Runner...20+ years ago. I don’t use Firefox or Google. I use Safari and have Ad Block Plus, so I’m not bothered by those types of ads.
I still have not figured out how to get away with a fake account from which to annoy liberals.
Good. Another you can do is create your own home page that has 90% of the common websites you go to so you really don’t need to search Google or Facebook to find them.
I put the personal home page in a folder of my computer rather than on the internet.
And the other thing you can do is clean out your surfing history.
Thanks for the advice, but my Safari browser already does that without me having to tell it to.
If there were this many fake accounts, Facebook has been misleading its advertisers about its marketing reach.
All of mine do!
583 million people they won’t have to pay in the class action suit, bwahaha
Thank you, gonna try that tonight.
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