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Facebook now regulates content on sale of drugs and firearms, removed 3.4 billion fake accounts in 6 months

Facebook yesterday said it disabled 3.4 billion fake accounts between October last year and March this year. The company disclosed this in its biannual community standards report, which is a summary how much and what content it moderated. Of the 3.4 billion fake accounts removed, 1.2 billion were removed in Q4 2018, and 2.19 billion in Q1 2019. Prevalence rate: Facebook said the prevalence rate of content that violated its adult nudity and sexual activity policy was 11-14 views out of 10,000 views. Prevalence rate measures violative content which Facebook hasn’t identified yet and people may still see. It's measured by sampling content reviewed on Facebook and reviewing it to see the percentage that violates its community standards. 11-14 views out of 10,000 views contained content which violated its adult nudity and sexual activity policy, which it said is below 1% of the content on Facebook is violative content 25 out of 10,000 views contained content which violated Facebook’s violence and graphic content policy. 5% of Facebook's monthly active users are fake Content acted upon means the how much content was violative and how well Facebook could identify such content. The actions include removing the content, applying a warning screen to it, or disabling accounts. Facebook disabled 1.2 billion accounts in Q4 2018 and 2.19 billion in Q1 2019. Proactive Rate: This measures how accurate AI is in detecting violative content, and basically indicates how much of violative content was detected. Facebook claims that it proactively detected 95% of the…

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