Facebook reported on Monday that it has deleted 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December 2020 and it had over 35,000 people working on tackling misinformation on its platform.
Facebook also removed 12 million pieces of content about COVID_19 and vaccines that global health experts flagged as misinformation. False claims and conspiracies about the coronavirus vaccines were rampant on social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter during the pandemic.
The tech giant exposure of data on misinformation comes ahead of an inspection by the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce into how technology platforms including Facebook are tackling misinformation
The company said in a blog post that it investigates and takes down covert foreign and domestic influence operations that rely on fake accounts.
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“Over the past three years, we've removed over 100 networks of coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) from our platform and keep the public informed about our efforts through our monthly CIB reports,” the company said in a blogpost.
Facebook stated that it working hard to crack down deceptive behaviour by disrupting the economic incentives structure behind it.
“We've built teams and systems to detect and enforce against inauthentic behaviour tactics behind a lot of clickbait,” Facebook said. “We also use artificial intelligence to help us detect fraud and enforce our policies against inauthentic spam accounts.”
The company has built a global network of more than 80 independent fact-checkers, who review content in more than 60 languages across its other social media platforms including WhatsApp and Instagram where users can post misinformation “in good faith.”
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