Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March


Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said on Thursday.
Nearly all of them were caught before they had a chance to become “active” users of the social network.
In a new report, Facebook said it saw a “steep increase” in the creation of abusive, fake accounts. While most of these fake accounts were blocked “within minutes” of their creation,