Facebook Says It Has Shut Down 5.4 Billion Fake Accounts This Year

Facebook Says It Has Shut Down 5.4 Billion Fake Accounts This Year
The logo of social network Facebook is displayed on a smartphone in France on January 15, 2019. LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images
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Facebook announced it has shut down 5.4 billion fake accounts between January and September of 2019.

In the social media firm’s new Community Standards Enforcement report, released on Wednesday, Facebook revealed that the fake accounts it removed encompassed about 5 percent of the platform’s active users.
Jack Phillips
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