Facebook: "538 million fake accounts blocked"

We have removed or labeled potentially three and a half million violent content in the first three months of 2018, 86% of which were identified by our technology before they were reported". Alex Schultz , vice president of Facebook Analytics, comments on the first Report on the application of the Social Community standards. In the first quarter of 2018, Facebook disabled about 583 million fake accounts "most of them blocked within a few minutes of their creation". The estimate is that some have escaped, about 3 or 4 percent of active accounts on Facebook.

"We also removed two and a half million hate content, 38% of which were taken directly from our technology," Schultz continued. "For sensitive issues such as explicit violence and incitement to hatred - he added - our technology still can not function effectively and we need the intervention of our audit teams".

Schultz then stressed that the most important parameter that is taken into account when compiling this report is the impact of any serious content on Facebook. "We measure - he underlined - both the frequency with which it is seen and the impact on individuals or on a wider community".

Facebook has also removed 21 million adult or pornographic nude content in the first quarter of 2018, "96% of which are detected by our technology before being reported." We estimate, however, that out of every 10 thousand content displayed on Facebook, 7 or 9 views covered content that violated our naked and pornography standards. "