Facebook purges tens of thousands of fake accounts to combat spam ring
Facebook has purged tens of thousands of fake accounts from its platform as part of an ongoing bid to dismantle a sophisticated global spam operation. The worldwide crackdown on “inauthentic likes and comments” was launched on Friday and Facebook’s security team confirmed the step on Saturday in an official blog post attributed to Shabnam Shaik, a technical program manager, that said the platform had been working to disrupt a single network for six months. Fake accounts are widely used to create and spread spam on Facebook, which is one of the reasons for the platform’s real-name policy. Those removals were motivated in part by the need to crack down on the spread of misinformation ahead of the hotly-contested presidential elections. They had said that "with these changes, we expect we will also reduce the spread of material generated through inauthentic activity, including spam, misinformation, or other deceptive content that is often shared by creators of fake accounts.”
[] 20,000 fake accounts that liked Guardian-branded pages on Facebook were removed - “suspicious account removal”.
[] 30,000 French accounts suspended
I think that it is a positive message that they are trying to prevent the network of spammers of sending materials that is inauthentic to a large number of people on Facebook. Hopefully now Facebook now knows how they need to monitor their users and keep a track of what they are doing. Yes to an extent it is invading to the users privacy, but if users are showing they can't be trusted and encouraging fake news or anything of that sort then shows that they need to be monitored and taken down from the internet/social media because thats what making the internet seem bad.
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