Facebook took down 2 billion pretend accounts between Jan and March, a record high for the corporate.

Facebook took down 2 billion pretend accounts between Jan and March, a record high for the corporate.

That range is simply slightly but the two.38 billion monthly active users Facebook has round the world.

For comparison, Facebook (FB) disabled 1.2 billion fake accounts in the previous quarter and 694 million between October and December 2017.

The new numbers were discharged Thursday within the company's third Community Standards social controlreport.

Facebook will begin releasing this report quarterly starting next year, rather than twice a year, and start including Instagram.

"The health of the discourse is simply as vital as any money coverage we have a tendency to do, thus we must always couple even as oft," chief operating officer Mark Zuckerberg aforesaid on a decision

with reporters on Thursday about the report. "Understanding the prevalence of harmful content will help companies and governments design better systems for dealing with it.
I believe each major web service ought to do that."



In another web log post shared Thursday, Facebook VP of Analytics Alex Schultz explained a number of the explanations behind the sharp increase in pretend accounts.

He said one factor is "simplistic attacks," which he claims don't represent real harm or even a real risk of harm.
This usually happens once somebody makes 100 million pretend accounts that area unit then taken down at once.

Schultz said they are removed so fast that nobody is exposed to them and they aren't included in active user counts.

The company aforesaid it estimates twenty five of each ten,000 content views, such as watching a video or checking out a photo, on Facebook were of things that violated its violence

and graphic content policies.
Between eleven and fourteen of each ten,000 content views violated its adult nudity and sexual activity policies.


Facebook also shared for the first time its efforts to crack down on illegal sales of firearms and drugs on its platform.
It said it increased its proactive detection of both drugs and firearms.
During the primary quarter, its systems found and flagged 83.3% of violating drug content and 69.9% of violating firearm content, according to the report.

Facebook said this occurred before users reported it.
Facebook's policies say users, manufacturers or retailers cannot buy or sell non-medial drugs or marijuana on the platform.
The rules additionally do not permit users to shop for, sell, trade or gift firearms on Facebook, including parts or ammunition.


In the report, the company also shared how many content removals users appealed, and how much of it the social network restored. People have the option to appeal Facebook's decisions, with the exception of content that is flagged for extreme safety concerns.

Between Jan and March, Facebook said it "took action" on 19.4 million pieces of content.
The company aforesaid two.1 million items of content were appealed.

After the appeals, 453,000 pieces of content were restored.
Hate speech has been particularly challenging for Facebook. The company's automated systems have a hard time identifying and removing hate speech, but that the technology is improving. The percentage of hate speech Facebook said it found proactively — meaning before users reported it — rose to 65.4% in the first quarter, up from 51.5% in the third quarter of 2018.
"What [AI] still can't do well is understand the context," Justin Osofsky, Facebook VP of global operations, said on the call. "Context is key when evaluating things like hate speech."
Osofsky also said Facebook will begin a pilot program where some of its content reviewers will focus on hate speech. The goal is for those reviewers to have a "deeper understanding" of how hate speech manifests and make "more accurate calls."