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Computer v Computer
I don’t have a Facebook account but within its interesting Community Standards Enforcement Preliminary Report, Facebook tells us…
We estimate that fake accounts represented approximately 3% to 4% of monthly active users (MAU) on Facebook during Q1 2018 and Q4 2017. We share this number in the Facebook quarterly financial results. This estimate may vary each quarter based on spikes or dips in automated fake account creation.
These numbers are largely affected by external factors, such as cyberattacks that increase fake accounts on Facebook. Bad actors try to create fake accounts in large volumes automatically using scripts or bots, with the intent of spreading spam or conducting illicit activities such as scams. The numbers can also be affected by internal factors, including the effectiveness of our detection technology.
In Q1 2018, we disabled 583 million fake accounts, down from 694 million in Q4 2017.
Source: http://akhaart.blogspot.com/2018/05/computer-v-computer.html
