Facebook announced that in the first quarter of this year it disabled 2.19 billion fake user accounts. In total, in the six months of October 2018-March 2019, more than three billion accounts have been deleted. In total, it is estimated that about 5% of the 2.4 billion active monthly users are fake accounts, which have not yet been discovered.
According to the latest social media report, more than seven million posts with “hate speech” were removed from Facebook’s content over the same six-month period (four million this year). In the first quarter of 2019, more than a million complaints were also lodged by users, as their posts were deleted as “hate speech” and, of these, about 150,000 were eventually restored.
At the same time, the CEO of the largest social network, Mark Zuckerberg, responding to the increasingly frequent objections and proposals to dismantle Facebook, because it has become too big, said that disintegration is not a solution and that, on the contrary, thanks to its size, it has managed to defend itself. effective against the challenges and problems of harmful, misleading, and propagandistic content.
“I do not think the solution to the split will work. The success of our company has allowed us to fund these efforts on a large scale. “I think the amount in our budget for our security systems is higher than all of Twitter’s revenue this year,” Zuckerberg said, according to the BBC and the French news agency. aggravate the problems. “
He also denied that Facebook controls the digital advertising market, where, as he said, Google holds the leading position. “I think the allegations that we are in some kind of dominant position are somewhat exaggerated,” he said.
Facebook said the steady increase in fake account deletion was due to the fact that some “malicious agents”, especially spammers who wanted to make money, were using automated methods to create large numbers of such accounts. But Facebook says it can now track and delete most of them in a matter of minutes before those accounts “cause any damage.”
The Facebook report says that for every 10,000 posts users see, less than 14 people see nudity, about 25 see violence, and less than three see child abuse or terrorist propaganda. Facebook also took action against 900,000 drug-related posts, most of which (83%) were automatically deleted from its “smart” software.
Source: RES – EIA
