{"id":91222,"date":"2019-05-23T12:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/facebook-fake-account-removal-doubles-in-6-months-to-3b"},"modified":"2019-05-23T12:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:22:39","slug":"facebook-fake-account-removal-doubles-in-6-months-to-3b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/facebook-fake-account-removal-doubles-in-6-months-to-3b","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: Fake account removal doubles in 6 months to 3B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-fake-account-removal-doubles-in-6-months-to-3b2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of them were caught before they had a chance to become \u201cactive\u201d users of the social network.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report, Facebook said it saw a \u201csteep increase\u201d in the creation of abusive, fake accounts in the past six months. While most of these fake accounts were blocked \u201cwithin minutes\u201d of their creation, the company said this increase of \u201cautomated attacks\u201d by bad actors meant not only that it caught more of the fake accounts, but that more of them slipped through the cracks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-facebook-figures-percent-accounts-fake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday. Nearly all of them were caught before they had a chance to become \u201cactive\u201d users of the social network. In a new report, Facebook said it saw a \u201csteep increase\u201d in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}