Facebook disabled 2.19 billion accounts in the first quaters
Facebook disabled 2.19 billion accounts in the first quaters Dailynaijamode Facebook said it recently disabled billions of bogus accounts set up by “bad actors” and that five percent of active accounts are likely fakes. An estimate of how many of the online social networks accounts are fake and actions taken against the creation of more during the first three months of this year was disclosed in Facebook’s latest report, published on Thursday, on enforcement activity. Facebook disabled 2.19 billion accounts in the first quarter of this year, nearly double the number of accounts nixed in the prior three-month period, according to vice president of integrity Guy Rosen. “The amount of accounts we took action on increased due to automated attacks by bad actors who attempt to create large volumes of accounts at one time,” Rosen said. Facebook apparently disabled the accounts as automated imposters were trying to establish them. The leading social network, meanwhile, estimated that fi