Fake Facebook accounts: the never-ending battle against bots
The staggering figure of more than three billion fake accounts blocked by Facebook over a six-month period highlights the challenges faced by social networks in curbing automated accounts, or bots, and other nefarious efforts to manipulate the platforms.
24 May 2019 ... How did so many fake accounts crop up? Facebook said this week it "disabled" 1.2 billion fake accounts in the last three months of 2018 and ... Sophisticated actors can create millions of accounts using the same program.