FACEBOOK DISABLES 3 BILLION FAKE ACCOUNTS

The data is part of Facebook’s third community standards enforcement report, explained that, the  category “fake accounts” was one of nine policies in the report,adding that among the others are nudity and sexual activity, bullying and harassment, hate speech, global terrorist propaganda and violence and graphic content.

Penpushing further reports that, the data show that Facebook took action against about 52 million accounts that dealt with violence and propaganda and 44 million accounts that dealt with adult nudity and sexual activity.

Meanwhile, the company said the number accounts it took action against increased “due to automated attacks by bad actors who attempt to create large volumes of accounts at one time.”