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Cattledog

(5,914 posts) Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:37 PM Jul 2018

Facebook has eliminated 1.3 billion fake accounts in the past year!

NBC Nightly

https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/facebook-battling-fake-profiles-1286302275898

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Facebook has eliminated 1.3 billion fake accounts in the past year! (Original Post) Cattledog Jul 2018 OP

Huh? Yonnie3 Jul 2018 #1

Yeah. In Zuckerberg We Trust dalton99a Jul 2018 #2

So that's why their stock is tanking a lot of those accounts were fake uponit7771 Jul 2018 #3

What's the source? kstewart33 Jul 2018 #4

Facebook says 3 percent to 4 percent of its active monthly users are fake. Cattledog Jul 2018 #5

Write down ALLLL your phone and fb contact info... Crutchez_CuiBono Jul 2018 #6

Yonnie3

(17,434 posts)

1. Huh?

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:44 PM

Jul 2018

They must have been mostly inactive accounts.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/

No big jump in the active users. This site says that have just over 2 billion users.

dalton99a

(81,464 posts)

2. Yeah. In Zuckerberg We Trust

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:45 PM

Jul 2018

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)

3. So that's why their stock is tanking a lot of those accounts were fake

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:46 PM

Jul 2018

kstewart33

(6,551 posts)

4. What's the source?

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:49 PM

Jul 2018

If it's Zuckerberg, proof is required.

Cattledog

(5,914 posts)

5. Facebook says 3 percent to 4 percent of its active monthly users are fake.

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 06:51 PM

Jul 2018

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)

6. Write down ALLLL your phone and fb contact info...

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Thu Jul 26, 2018, 09:27 PM

Jul 2018

the electrical grid attack is coming. If it weren't, they wouldn't even be discussing it. Rolling black-outs? I hope not. Prepare ahead to cut your losses. Maintain your generators.

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