Facebook is keeping the pedal to the metal in its battle against fake news, announcing steps to crack down on the fake accounts that share much of this content, and running full-page informational ads in French newspapers prior to that country’s upcoming presidential election.
Shabnam Shaik, a technical program manager on Facebook’s protect and care team, announced in a Facebook Security note that the social network implemented some changes to enable it to more effectively find and delete fake accounts by detecting suspicious activity such as repeated posting of the same content or accelerated rates of messages sent.
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