We all know that Facebook is full of fake accounts. On more than one occasion we have received a friend request from one of these accounts, which simply have a profile photo and no publication. Although the social network constantly struggles to end these types of accounts. But their presence is still huge, despite the huge number of accounts that have been closed.
Because Facebook has now revealed that they have already closed 583 million fake accounts so far this year. In just five months, all these accounts have been closed. And despite how huge it is, there are still a lot of fake accounts still open.
It is one of the most important battles for the social network. Since there are many false accounts and SPAM messages that circulate through the social network with great ease. Although they dedicate more and more resources to it, in addition to using artificial intelligence.
Between October of last year and March of this year, Facebook confirms having removed 1.300 billion fake accounts. A figure that is equivalent to half the number of users on the social network. In addition, there is also a huge amount of spam messages circulating. In fact this year have already deleted 837 million messages spam.
In the vast majority of cases, these messages were detected and removed before they were reported by users or that they were opened. So Facebook has acted with great agility in many of these cases. Although the problem is still huge.
La artificial intelligence has become the main ally of the social network. Since it is responsible for detecting 96% of false accounts in the social network. So it does essential work for Facebook. Since without it they would not advance so fast detecting and closing fake accounts.