Facebook announced yesterday that it had deleted 1,3 billion fake accounts on its platform between October and December of last year, and that the fight againstinformacemore than 35 thousand people participate in me. It also said it had removed over a dozen million pieces of information related to the coronavirus and its related vaccines, which global health experts had labeled asinformace.
Facebook is about these informace he shared before the inspection by the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the US House of Representatives, which is to find out how technology platforms, including the social giant, deal with the issue of "fake news".
"Over the past three years, we have removed over a hundred networks exhibiting coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) from our platform and have communicated our efforts to the public through CIB reports," Facebook wrote on its blog.
Facebook, which includes other popular social media and messaging platforms such as Instagram or WhatsApp, noted that many users may post desinformace "in good faith". To prevent this from happening, he says he has built a global network of more than eighty independent fact-checkers who check content in more than 60 languages.
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