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Two people, in their free time, have reported ~2,000 fake Facebook accounts posing as US military and are concerned about the company's tools to catch others

“We know we have more work to do,” Facebook said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.  —  Kathy Kostrub-Waters and Bryan Denny estimate they've spent … Tweets: @craigsilverman and @craigsilverman Tweets: Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman : Facebook told a US Army veteran it flagged 22 of his photos to prevent them from being used to create new fake accounts for military romance scams. But a woman easily set up a new account with the pics —and the suggested friends were *very* strange... http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Craig Silverman / @craigsilverman : Over the past two years, Kathy Kostrub-Waters and Bryan Denny have reported roughly 2,000 fake Facebook accounts — all in their spare time. Average folks like them are trying to fix Facebook, and say they're frustrated with the company's lack of effort: http://www.buzzfeed.com/...

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