Facebook deletes 583m fake accounts: In the latest news, a report has it that Facebook releases the figure as it says millions of pieces of violent content were also blocked.

In the reports, Facebook revealed hundreds of millions of accounts were fake as it published content removal numbers for the first time.

The company removed 583 million fake accounts, although these were not all active at the same time.

The figure comes alongside newly published data on Facebook's content removals - which the company has released for the first time - revealing the amount of abuse which occurs on its site.

The figures show how much graphic violence, adult nudity and sexual activity, terrorist propaganda, hate speech, spam, and fake accounts that are uploaded to its platform.

The company stated that between October 2017 and March 2018 it took down or put warning labels on:
- 837 million pieces of spam
- 583 million fake accounts
- 21 million pieces of adult nudity and sexual activity
- 3.5 million pieces of violent content
- 2.5 million pieces of hate speech Read more:
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