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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
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It’s a start.
Well, after the three million fake Republican accounts were closed, that sure left a lot of fake Democrat accounts.
I’ve never joined Facebook and I don’t do Twitter either, but for the life of me, how does a company let this happen in the first place?
When a liberal creates a fake facebook page to spread hate on a public forum - and I can spot a fake pretty easily - I ALWAYS report it. The actual action rate from facebook is what’s 3-4%.
Now if they can just stop every other post from being an advertisement.
And all of them voted for Felonia von Pantsuit
Facebook has taken advantage of thousands if not millions of people. They have no idea how vulnerable they are. For them it's all about what the family is doing, cute kid pics, etc.
An earlier article I read this morning was more like 1.5 BILLION.
It takes a lot of money to screen out the huge amount of trash that people try to dump on websites like YouTube, Facebook, etc.
Yes Facebook is no doubt "accidentally" deleting valid conservative accounts as well.
But if someone wants to create a competitive site that won't delete valid conservative accounts ... and can also successfully delete the millions of bad actor accounts and posts then good luck!
“And all of them voted for Felonia von Pantsuit”
My alias didn’t. Of course, it hasn’t been deleted.
4.5 billion to go......
BS.
Anyone can go on facebook and still find antifa, blm, and other terrorist groups on there.
They did a pretty good job getting rid of the click-bait.
Ha! thats a new one for me. I like it.
So why can’t facebook get rid of a fake page that is identity theft that I have complained about three times now? Not conservative enough????
If it’s a liberal being reported the “action rate” is 0.0%
I’ve seen liberals on there calling for the murder of conservatives, the posts get reported, and FB comes back with the standard: “were sorry blah, blah, blah...some people blah, blah, blah...the post doesn’t violate our TOS blah, blah, blah....”
Facebook's more than two billion users from January through March
583 million out of 2 billion = 29.15%
Okay then, how many of those were created by Facebook themselves to puff up user numbers so they could charge fees accordingly...
hogwash. all three of my fake facebook accounts are still active ...
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