After removing fake accounts from Facebook, yet again the company removed 2 billion more fake accounts from its portal, including thousands helping promote a far-right German political party.
Facebook announced this week it removed 2.19 billion fake accounts between January and March, its biggest-ever take down of fakes in a single quarter. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg told media that “we’re taking down more fake accounts than ever.”
What’s not knows that he didn’t mention was, there are also more active fake accounts on Facebook than there were six months ago, or more than ever.
According to Facebook 5% of active accounts are fake, up from its previous estimate of 3% to 4%.
As stated by the CEO ” The sweep of more than 2 billion fake accounts, they were never considered active in our systems and we don’t count them in any of our overall community metrics.”
But the problem is worse than we can imagine, according to people the company still fails to remove obvious fakes, even during critical periods, such as the ongoing European Parliament election.
This really shows how under pressure Facebook is, and company is really failing to identify and remove actual fake accounts.
According to George Washington University research professor Trevor Davis, ” What I can prove is that in the course of three months I identified 200,000 accounts that have two or more features of artificiality, Of the nearly 200,000 likely fraudulent accounts we identified, Facebook suspended a grand total of 500 during our study period”
” They failed to suspend accounts using stolen images of famous actors and even the late president of Kosovo as their profile photo. They failed to suspend accounts located in Muslim countries that ‘like’ hundreds of Islamophobic posts a day. This occurred during an election. I find this an odd time for Facebook to publicly pat themselves on the back.”
This is a critical time for Facebook, as the growing population of Facebook traffic it has been getting hard to control between the real and fake audience.
