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Facebook Brings Down 2 Billion Phony Accounts

Facebook brings down 2.2 billion phony accounts during January and March

Facebook brings down 2.2 billion phony accounts during January and March, a record high for the organization.

That number is just a little less than the 2.38 billion month to month active clients Facebook has in the world. For comparison, Facebook (FB) disabled 1.2 billion phony accounts in the past quarter and 694 million among October and December 2017. The new numbers were published Thursday in the organization’s third Community Standards report. Facebook will start releasing this report quarterly beginning one year from now, as opposed to two times per year, and begin the inclusion of Instagram reports.

The organization said it gauged 25 of each 10,000 content views, for example, viewing a video or looking at a photograph, on Facebook were of things that abused its content guidelines. Somewhere in the range of 11 and 14 of each 10,000 content views violated its nudity and sexual content rules. Facebook likewise shared out of the blue its endeavors to take action against illicit offers of guns and illegal drugs on its website.

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