Facebook releases an update on enforcing its community standards, saying it banned 2.19B fake accounts in Q1 2019, up from 1.2B in Q4 2018
Zuck just gave a long answer to why he thought FB shouldn't be broken up. He started with the idea that FB has lots of competition. Then said its size is actually helpful.Zuckerberg: We spend more on safety right now than Twitter makes in an entire year 👀 Davey Alba / @daveyalba : There are 1.56 billion people who are daily active users on Facebook, and Facebook disabled 2.19 billion fake accounts in Q1 2019. https://newsroom.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... Brian Fishman / @brianfishman : Fewer than 0.03% of content views on FB are of terrorist content. That's a maximum estimate. It's really hard to provide clarity on content this uncommon, so big kudos to the data science team that pulled this together. http://newsroom.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... Ashkan Soltani / @ashk4n : Facebook reports that “5% of monthly active accounts are fake” and they disabled 2.19billion fake accounts in Q1 2019.So how much of the ~$56 Billion yearly ad revenue is Facebook refunding to advertisers since at least 5% of it was fraudulent?https://newsroom.fb.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Jarrod Overson / @jsoverson : In Q1 2019 Facebook disabled 2.2 BILLION fake accounts. 99.8% were caught by facebook which leaves 4.4 million that were able to interact with the social network before being reported by users. https://transparency.facebook.com/ ... Guy Rosen / @guyro : As we've ramped up work on safety, we know it's not enough to just do the work, we also have to be open about it. Today we're publishing our 3rd community standards enforcement report, which includes metrics about how we're doing at enforcing our policies https://newsroom.fb.com/... Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : Fascinating data from FB on takedown of abusive/fake content. Note both the volume of attempts, and the success rate in detection. Some things are harder to spot than others. http://newsroom.fb.com/... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : To be fair, Facebook's annual spending (~$33 billion including data center costs & revenue sharing payments) is about 10x Twitter's annual revenue. Yeah, Twitter is small. https://twitter.com/... Dave Lee / @daveleebbc : Asked Zuckerberg about the White House tool for people to report “censorship” on FB and others. No comment, essentially (he just rattled off the usual about taking things seriously) Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Paraphrasing here but I just asked FB how the company's move to privacy will impact its ability to catch bad content in the future. Mark Zuckerberg's answer: There will be trade-offs. Better privacy means FB may not be able to do as much on safety https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : If you care about how FB detects and categorizes fake accts, here's a blog post they published this morning explaining some of that. https://newsroom.fb.com/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : OK, can someone tell me what this even means? Is this an ESTIMATED 65% detection rate for hate speech, or is Facebook sure? Also: how would they be sure if they are the only ones checking? (Not like Facebook shares its internal data with third parties.) https://newsroom.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... John Paczkowski / @johnpaczkowski : There were at least 21 million instances of child nudity and sexual exploitation on Facebook during the last 3 quarters https://twitter.com/... Rory Cellan-Jones / @ruskin147 : Latest Facebook report on stuff it takes down. Standout figures - 2.1 billion fake accounts and 4 million hate speech posts removed just in Q1 2019 http://newsroom.fb.com/... Brin Ries / @moneyries : Facebook says it has disabled more than 2 billion fake accounts in the first 3 months of 2019, most “due to automated attacks by bad actors who attempt to create large volumes of accounts at one time.” https://newsroom.fb.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : A few more new and interesting stats: * FB removed more than 1.5 million posts related to drug and firearm sales last quarter * FB received appeals for 1.1 million pieces of content last quarter (people upset their post was removed). It restored 130k of them based on the appeal Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Facebook released it latest content transparency report today. Crazy stat that jumps out: FB removed ~2.2 billion fake accounts in the first quarter of 2019. That up from 583 million a year earlier. That's almost as many accts as all people who use FB https://transparency.facebook.com/ ... See also Mediagazer