Facebook Has Already Banned 2.2 Billion Fake Accounts In Q1 Unlisted Video

Famous social media site "Facebook" took down nearly 2.2 billion bogus accounts between March and January 2019, a record high for the organization.
That number is only slightly less than the 2.5 billion monthly active users Facebook Inc have around the globe.Show more

On 12 February 2019 Silicon Valley technology giant released the 3rd edition of its Community Standards Implementation report, a public report that details the company's efforts to keep its platform free of abusive material, fake accounts, spam, illegal activity, and other nefarious content.
More than 2 billion People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family and discover what is going on in the world.

The data illustrates the sheer volume of malicious movement still present on Facebook's website. The company reported 2.50 billion genuine monthly active users at the end of March. Company will begin publishing this report quarterly starting next year, rather than twice a year, and start including Instagram.

Facebook employs thousands of people to review photos, posts, videos and comments for violations. Some fake accounts are also detected without humans, using (AI) artificial intelligence. The number of posts Facebook identified as hate speech also continued to climb, it removed 4 million such posts in the most recent quarter, up from 3.3 million in the previous three months and from 2.5 million in the first quarter of 2018.

Facebook said its ability to proactively detect this content had also improved, with 65.4 percent of it detected by the company's systems and processes, up from 58.8 percent the previous quarter. Facebook is touting its improved detection capabilities as a success, allowing it to take action against problematic or illegal content more quickly before it filters out into the network and causes issues.

"The health of the discourse is just as important as any financial reporting we do, so we should do it just as frequently," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a call with reporters on Thursday about the report.

"Understanding the prevalence of objectionable content will help governments and companies design better systems for dealing with it. I believe every big internet service provider should do this."

"What artificial intelligence still cannot do well is understand the context," Justin Osofsky, Facebook vice president of global operations, said on the call.
"Context is the key when evaluating things like hate speech."

Osofsky also said Facebook will begin a navigator program where some of its content analysts will concentrate on hate speech. The goal is for those analysts to have a "deeper recognition" of how hatred speech manifests and make "more accurate calls."
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