Facebook said it had removed more than 3 billion fake accounts over the past two quarters, a spike in inauthentic activity that the tech giant attributed to “unsophisticated” bad actors that are caught in the act of creating scores of fake profiles in batches.
Logo of Facebook is seen at the startups' and tech leaders' gathering, VivaTech, in Paris on May 16, 2019. By Tony Romm Tony Romm Staff writer covering technology policy Email Bio Follow May 23 at 1:04 PM Facebook said it had removed more than 3 billion fake accounts between October and March, a spike in inauthentic activity that the tech giant attributed to “unsophisticated” bad actors that are caught while creating scores of fake profiles in batches.
Facebook said that the billions of accounts it removed over the six-month period were “never considered active,” so they did not count toward the company’s total number of monthly active users, a figure that investors track closely to chart Facebook’s popularity and growth. In the first quarter of this year, Facebook reported that it had 2.3 billion monthly active users.
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