Facebook announced the deletion of 2.2 billion fake accounts between the months of January and March 2019, the highest number of phantom accounts that the company delete in just three months.
This figure is slightly lower than the number of active users per month, amounting to about 2.38 billion accounts. The company closed 1.2 billion accounts in the last quarter of 2018 and closed 694 million imaginary accounts in the same period, the fourth quarter of 2017.
Facebook has announced these figures through a report it publishes at the beginning of each quarter starting in 2020, instead of publishing it twice a year with the addition of Instagram accounts.
"The importance of honest dialogue is no less important than the financial reports we provide, so the two must be equal," Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with CNN.
The company said it estimates that 25 out of every 10,000 views of content, such as watching a video or checking a picture, on Facebook, was a violation of content policies in terms of violence and malicious images.
"We've seen a sharp increase in the creation of fake fake accounts on Facebook in the last six months, where we were able to identify most of these accounts within minutes of registration, but the programmed attacks resulted in the creation of more such phantom accounts Making it beyond preliminary detection. "
Facebook said it had increased the amount of proactive detection of content including drugs and firearms. During the first quarter, it found its systems and stopped 83.3% of the content that ran counter to the drug policy and 69.9% of the content that ran counter to the firearms policy of Facebook, before being reported by users.
This is the third time that the company has participated in this Transparency Report and announced that it will do so every 3 months from now on to Facebook and Entragam.