Facebook's AI tool shuts down 6.6 billion fake accounts

Facebook's AI tool shuts down 6.6 billion fake accounts

Facebook says its machine learning tools have shut down more than 6 billion fake accounts in the past year. These accounts are in addition to the millions of accounts that Facebook does not allow to be created every day.

According to Facebook, their AI tool has been working for two years. This is the latest way to block fake accounts.

This tool uses a technology called Deep Entity Classification and analyzes active Facebook accounts.

In addition, the tool monitors the behavior of individual Facebook profiles. This tool monitors thousands of activities such as sent friend requests, group joining, or page liking. This AI tool learns itself over time, which also increases its performance.

Facebook says the tool has reduced the number of spam accounts on the platform by 27%. The company says that the rate of fake accounts on Facebook is just 5%.