The Amount of Fake Accounts Removed from Facebook This Year Nearly Equals Its Number of Total Active Users

Facebook disabled more than 2 billion fake accounts on Facebook in the first quarter of 2019 alone, nearly the same amount of total monthly active users the company has, the company said Thursday in a report about how it is enforcing its platform rules. (Adweek)

This figure is nearly double the 1.2 billion removed during the fourth quarter of 2018. (Mashable)

The company took down 99.8 percent of these accounts proactively, meaning the accounts were detected by automated tools before users had to report them. (Variety)

The company declined to say where the attacks primarily originate from or how many might be politically—instead of commercially—motivated. (HuffPost)