While announcing blockbuster earnings, Facebook quietly discloses as many as 270 million accounts are likely fake or duplicate.
Although Facebook claims to be really strict about verifying real people are behind accounts, the numbers show something entirely different. As I mentioned previously in a comment yesterday, many have suspected as much as 70% of Facebook paid impressions are fraudulent and tied to many of these accounts.
Facebook recently made a feeble attempt at correcting this by purging tens of thousands of accounts prior to global elections. This is a direct result of a pledge to Congress to do more to prevent fake accounts. Similar pledges were made by Google and Twitter.
Future efforts may be more successful as they are doubling their 10,000 review staff and implementing artificial intelligence to further detect fraud.
A lot of these fraudulent accounts are used to promote fake news and hidden agendas from individuals, organizations, and even foreign governments.
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270 million fake accounts? That's huge.
Edit: We should never let that happen on steemit!
YUUGE!
Will somebody please think of the children?!
https://www.steemit.com/trending/porn
Too late for Steemit, but it would have been nice :-)
Hopefully quickly processed and become better again for the future
Yea man i agree with you there are two many fake accounts on fb and we can't trust any person easily on fb..😕
If facebook 270 millions fake accounts close then i m sure steemit real acounts above then facebook account in 2020. @themarkymark
agree with that
Sometimes is not safe to use facebook, it"s because there is to many fake accounts and hackers manipulated all those method. hoping that the facebook founder giving much more time to this issue.
Some Facebook accounts are accounts for pets! lol A lot of people have accounts like that. It would be interesting to see how many accounts are pets and how many are real. There are also accounts created by fans for characters, video game characters, movie characters, that's kinda funny too.
Definitely worth an upvote and a resteem :]
Thanks
270 million fake account in USA or world..
@themarkymark
The US population is around 320M people, so the number of fake accounts is near that.
ow sorry
well, we cant do anything for the spammers...just stay away from them..
What's Facebook?
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Loll...old junkyard😂
I wonder if the people who have more than one account - like one for their professional life and one for friends - are counted in this number, because I know a few people have said they do that.
To be honest, I'm surprised they mentioned only 270m possible accounts. I would have thought it were closer to 400-450m.
Then again, by now everybody knows that FB's metrics are not to be trusted. Just like fake news didn't influence the elections either.
damn
Yep, on Facebook there is almost obvious that some accounts are fake. I wonder what numbers are for Steemit accounts right now.
from what I understand, about 400K accounts and about 10-20K active users.
Thanks for the info, that's pretty few active users compared to the account. I don't know, is this a good thing?
great info thanks for sharing
Wow, that is bad. I knew their user account numbers were inflated, but that is egregious!