Facebook has published its third Community Standards Enforcement Report which provides metrics on the social network's efforts at preventing and removing controversial content. In the six-month period from October 2018 to March 2019, Facebook said it removed 3.39 billion fake accounts. That's twice the number of fake accounts detected and removed in the previous six-month period and over a billion more than the 2.37 billion people who actively use the social network on a monthly basis. Facebook attributed the rise in the number of fake accounts to an increasing number of attacks by bad actors who attempt to create large volumes of accounts at once. Detection was carried out through a combination of artificial intelligence and human monitoring with most of the fake accounts blocked within minutes of their creation.

Source: Forbes May 24, 2019 10:51 UTC