Alert! Facebook took down 1.3 billion fake accounts between Oct-Dec
The company also removed more than 12 million pieces of content about COVID-19 and vaccines that global health experts flagged as misinformation, it said in a blog post. False claims and conspiracies about the coronavirus vaccines have proliferated on social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter during the pandemic.
Mar 22, 2021, 19:30 PM IST
Facebook deletes 652 fake accounts from Iran and Russia ahead of US midterm polls
According to Facebook, some of the fake Pages, groups and accounts originated in Iran and some in Russia.
Aug 22, 2018, 10:26 AM IST
Facebook shut 583 million fake accounts
Facebook pulled or slapped warnings on nearly 30 million posts containing sexual or violent images, terrorist propaganda or hate speech during the first quarter.
May 16, 2018, 14:59 PM IST
Facebook knows it has 270 million fake accounts
The social media giant this week released its third quarter earning and buried in those results, it disclosed that there are tens of millions more fake and duplicate accounts than it had previously thought, The Telegraph reported on Saturday.
Nov 04, 2017, 15:09 PM IST
