Facebook Inc. he said that 2,2 deleted billions of bogus accounts in the first quarter of 2019, a record that shows what the company is facing by people trying to undermine the authenticity of the largest social network in the world.
In the last quarter of 2018, Facebook deactivated more than 1 billion fake accounts, while 583 million accounts were deleted in the first quarter of last year alone. The vast majority of these accounts are deleted immediately, a few minutes after they are created, the company said, so they are not counted in the monthly counts of active Facebook users.
"Most fake accounts are created by spammers who are constantly trying to avoid our systems," Guy Rosen, vice president of Facebook's integrity department, told reporters.
Facebook also released a new one measurement in Thursday's report:
The number of posts that were erased, promoted drugs and firearms. Facebook has written off over 1,5 millions of posts from these categories in the first three months of 2019 and said it would soon include other types of illegal activities.
The CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg stated that the company has greatly increased its spending on "policing" its products.
"The capital we can invest in all the security systems in our budget in 2019 is greater than the total revenue of our company in 2012 “
Το Facebook έχει υποσχεθεί επανειλημμένα να ανιχνεύει και να διαγράφει δημοσιεύσεις που παραβιάζουν τις πολιτικές του και έχει δεσμευτεί για την ανάπτυξη προγραμμάτων τεχνητής νοημοσύνης που θα ασχολούνται μόνο με αυτό. Το μεγαλύτερο κοινωνικό δίκτυο γνωρίζει ότι μια επαρκής monitoring and "policing" cannot be done only with humans.
According to the company, the AI algorithms it uses are working very well on some issues, such as written violent content.
Facebook says it can detect almost 99% of all violent posts and removes them before a user reports them to the company. But the company still has a very serious problem with violent content being broadcast live video, such as the video that broadcast the terrorist attack on a New Zealand mosque.
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