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Facebook publishes enforcement numbers for the first time

Posted by cfabbro
Tags: social media, facebook, spam, fake accounts, hate speech, moderation, author.kathryn glickman
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/05/enforcement-numbers/

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kathrynglickman
Published
Aug 28 2018
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    arghdos
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    538 million fake accounts in a 4 month period is a fairly mind boggling number!

    538 million fake accounts in a 4 month period is a fairly mind boggling number!

    2 votes
    1. cfabbro
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      Yeah, all the numbers are rather staggering. 837 million pieces of spam 538 million fake accounts 21 million pieces of NSFW.porn content 3.5 million pieces of violent content 2.5 million pieces of...

      Yeah, all the numbers are rather staggering.

      837 million pieces of spam
      538 million fake accounts
      21 million pieces of NSFW.porn content
      3.5 million pieces of violent content
      2.5 million pieces of hate speech

      I wonder what the false positive rate is though. Even 1% would be a heck of a lot at that scale.

      2 votes
    2. nothis
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      How many accounts does facebook even have, now? 2 billion? That's like a quarter of that, lol. What?!?

      How many accounts does facebook even have, now? 2 billion? That's like a quarter of that, lol. What?!?

      1 vote
  2. shiruken
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    583 million fake accounts?? Facebook has just around 2 billion users. That's over 25% of its entire proclaimed userbase.

    583 million fake accounts?? Facebook has just around 2 billion users. That's over 25% of its entire proclaimed userbase.

    2 votes