One issue in the Facebook community is fake accounts, "Facebook’s disclosure of data on misinformation comes ahead of an inspection by the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce into how technology platforms including Facebook are tackling misinformation."
Fake accounts are a problem in spreading misinformation, Conspiracies and false claims.
Between October and December Facebook removed 1.7 billion fake accounts. The Facebook company designed a artificial intelligence system to automatically detect fake accounts. "Five years ago, Facebook relied largely on users to flag offending accounts to human reviewers. But the volume of problematic accounts Facebook has to deal with is massive: in the third quarter of 2019, the last period for which the company has released numbers, Facebook blocked some 1.7 billion offending accounts."
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