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Facebook removed 3 billion fake accounts over a six-month period

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.

www.washingtonpost.com

Between October and March, Facebook reported it removed or labeled 

• 11.1 million pieces of terrorist content
• 52.3 million instances of violent or graphic content
• 7.3 million posts, photos or other uploads containing hate speech
• 1.4 million pieces of content that violated its rules against selling guns, gun parts or ammunition
• 1.5 million items about drugs, including marijuana.