Facebook removed both third-party apps and fake accounts that were authorized by Facebook. On Tuesday, May 15, Facebook released its first Community Standards Executive Report, making an ongoing effort to restore public faith in the social network as it continues to tackle fake news and privacy scandals.
The company’s vice president of product management Guy Rosen stated that Facebook blocked around 583 million fake accounts in the first three months of 2018 alone. In terms of content, this is about a quarter of the entire user base of the social network.
On average, around 6.5 million fake accounts were created every day between 2018 and early March 31.. Rosen notes that most of these spam accounts are disabled within minutes of signing up.. This process relieves people of the burden of scanning the site to find bots, thanks to Facebook’s artificial intelligence (A.I) tools. Facebook still estimates between 3 and 4 percent of Facebook accounts are not real. This means that with 2.2 billion users, about 66 million of these accounts are fake.
In addition, Facebook managed to find and delete 837 million spam messages in the first quarter of 2018.. The vast majority of these were deleted before users had a chance to report them.. “The key to fighting spam is to take down the fake accounts that are spreading,” Rosen said. More recently, it has announced that it has blocked access of more than 200 third-party apps that were found to violate its data policies.
Facebook also includes graphic violence, as well as adult nudity and sexual activity. Despite being pretty effective at taking over, the team admits its AI tech isn’t doing well enough when it comes to hate speech.. While Facebook removed 2.5 million units of hate speech in the first three months of the year, only 38 percent did it with artificial intelligence tools. investing in technology”. “We believe that increasing transparency tends to lead to increased accountability and responsibility over time, and publishing this information will push us to improve faster,” Rosen said.. “This is the same data we use to measure our progress internally – and now you can see that you can judge your progress for yourself.. We look forward to your feedback.”