More than 1.6 billion Facebook accounts have been deleted for the following reasons-Information Technology

In a recently published report, Facebook said it removed more than 1.6 billion fake accounts in the first three months of 2022.

Meta (Facebook’s parent company) published its Community Standards Enforcement report for the first quarter of 2022, which provides an overview of the company’s ongoing efforts to detect abuse in websites. applications, such as bullying, harassment, hate speech, violence, spam, etc.

Facebook is the largest social networking platform today. Photo: Pexels

With technological innovation, the system of Facebook improved the ability to proactively detect bad content from 58.8% (fourth quarter of 2021) to 67% (first quarter of 2022).

Research shows that many young users have suffered severe psychological effects from critical comments on Facebook and Instagram. However, Meta is trying to develop tools to limit, and more support, people who are facing similar challenges.

In the first quarter of 2022 alone, Meta removed more than 1.8 billion spam content, an increase of more than 600 million content compared to the previous quarter.

More than 1.5 billion fake accounts were deleted in the first 3 months of the year. Photo: Facebook

“We estimate fake accounts represented about 5% of worldwide monthly active users (MAUs) in Q1 2022,” a Facebook representative shared.

Facebook says its goal is to “delete as many fake Facebook accounts as possible,” prioritizing those that often send spam or commit financial fraud.