- Facebook shared it disabled 583 million accounts in Q1 2018, down from 694 million (Q4 2017).
- Many accounts were bots “with the intent of spreading spam or scams”.
- While most were disabled within minutes of registration (detection algorithms), Facebook estimates 3-4% of its monthly users (70-90 million) are fakes.
- 1.5% were disabled thanks to users flagging accounts.
- Its algorithms still have trouble identifying hate speech (+56% Q1 2018 vs Q4 2017) since hate vs free speech can be subjective (relies on human moderators).
