Fake Facebook Profiles Top 83 Million

Fake Facebook Profiles Top 83 Million:

More than 83 million Facebook accounts are fake, the social network has revealed in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). That represents 8.7 percent of Facebook's user base. The 10-Q filing reveals that Facebook is aware of a large portion of accounts plaguing the site that shouldn't be there, with 4.8 percent of users (well over 45 million) owning "duplicate accounts", which aren't allowed under the terms and conditions of the service. Beyond that, there are around 2.4 percent (just under 23 million) of "user-misclassified accounts", where users have created "personal profiles for a business, organization, or non-human entity such as a pet", which are meant to be hosted under its Pages section. Lastly, some 1.5 percent of users (around 14 million accounts) are "undesirable", which refers to user profiles that "are intended to be used for purpose...

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