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

Company disabled 2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2019

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.

The company pulled almost 2.2 billion fake accounts in the first quarter of 2019, compared to the nearly 2.4 billion monthly active users it reported in the same time period. In the last quarter of 2018, Facebook pulled 1.2

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