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To be fair, Facebook's annual spending (~$33 billion including data center costs & revenue sharing payments) is about 10x Twitter's annual revenue.
— Shira Ovide (@ShiraOvide) May 23, 2019
Yeah, Twitter is small. https://t.co/7zypEIcQMT
Facebook released it latest content transparency report today. Crazy stat that jumps out: FB removed ~2.2 billion fake accounts in the first quarter of 2019. That up from 583 million a year earlier. That's almost as many accts as all people who use FBhttps://t.co/YeZ8ayGYTO
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) May 23, 2019
At $12.6 billion, DoorDash is now valued higher than Domino’s Pizza and at one-third of FedExhttps://t.co/9evicVz0bR
— Scott Austin (@ScottMAustin) May 23, 2019
Wow -- Zuck just gave a long answer to why he thought FB shouldn't be broken up. He started with the idea that FB has lots of competition. Then said its size is actually helpful.
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) May 23, 2019
Zuckerberg: We spend more on safety right now than Twitter makes in an entire year ?
There are 1.56 billion people who are daily active users on Facebook, and Facebook disabled 2.19 billion fake accounts in Q1 2019. https://t.co/L5UG1BegA9 pic.twitter.com/cpc86nGmca
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) May 23, 2019
Latest Facebook report on stuff it takes down. Standout figures - 2.1 billion fake accounts and 4 million hate speech posts removed just in Q1 2019 https://t.co/T4G3c0cx4c
— Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147) May 23, 2019
Paraphrasing here but I just asked FB how the company's move to privacy will impact its ability to catch bad content in the future.
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) May 23, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg's answer: There will be trade-offs. Better privacy means FB may not be able to do as much on safety https://t.co/qcJWnKOlSE
FWIW: FB is doing a press call on this right now. An executive just acknowledge the high number of fake accounts last quarter and gave this explanation: The high number of accts is due to "automated attacks by bad actors who try and create large volumes of accts”
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) May 23, 2019
Asked Zuckerberg about the White House tool for people to report "censorship" on FB and others. No comment, essentially (he just rattled off the usual about taking things seriously)
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeBBC) May 23, 2019
Facebook says it has disabled more than 2 billion fake accounts in the first 3 months of 2019, most "due to automated attacks by bad actors who attempt to create large volumes of accounts at one time." https://t.co/A4cGDWK4sS
— Briän Ries (@moneyries) May 23, 2019
Facebook reports that "5% of monthly active accounts are fake" and they disabled 2.19billion fake accounts in Q1 2019.
— ashkan soltani (@ashk4n) May 23, 2019
So how much of the ~$56 Billion yearly ad revenue is Facebook refunding to advertisers since at least 5% of it was fraudulent?https://t.co/XjNa22xCmf pic.twitter.com/I1zuZdbLGe
OK, can someone tell me what this even means? Is this an ESTIMATED 65% detection rate for hate speech, or is Facebook sure? Also: how would they be sure if they are the only ones checking? (Not like Facebook shares its internal data with third parties.) https://t.co/L5UG1BegA9 pic.twitter.com/yjfeyUH65f
— Davey Alba (@daveyalba) May 23, 2019
Fascinating data from FB on takedown of abusive/fake content. Note both the volume of attempts, and the success rate in detection. Some things are harder to spot than others. https://t.co/jcXAup5v7M
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) May 23, 2019
There were at least 21 million instances of child nudity and sexual exploitation on Facebook during the last 3 quarters pic.twitter.com/SZOQSraEjW
— John Paczkowski (@JohnPaczkowski) May 23, 2019
A few more new and interesting stats:
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) May 23, 2019
* FB removed more than 1.5 million posts related to drug and firearm sales last quarter
* FB received appeals for 1.1 million pieces of content last quarter (people upset their post was removed). It restored 130k of them based on the appeal
If you care about how FB detects and categorizes fake accts, here's a blog post they published this morning explaining some of that. https://t.co/EWKg1AtHDI
— Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) May 23, 2019
.@PostOpinions #SteveBannon: "We’re in an economic war with #China. It’s futile to compromise." https://t.co/jodqllDVTo
— Citizens of the American Republic (@CitizensAR) May 7, 2019
WITNESS ANNE BRIDGMAN reports-Kids being held in Homestead R getting their counseling long-distance via screens-when there’s a counseling center 3 miles away. Thanks 2 this reporter 4 writing about yet another atrocity at Homestead #htt #TargetHomestead . https://t.co/RLhMI9W6dw
— Witness: Tornillo. Target: Homestead (@TornilloWitness) May 20, 2019
Starting in 2020, corrupt Democrats may be recalled if they don't comply with public demands to produce ten years' tax returns.@MayaRockeymoore Cummings calls IRS complaint against her politically motivated - https://t.co/FV4AmOhU3I #MAGA #GOP #TCOT https://t.co/w5doTQYJqq
— Indict Hillary ❌❌ (@actlightning) May 22, 2019
Another great piece from @IgnatiusPost I wish I had found months ago. Giuliani represents himself aboard as Trump’s Cybersecurity Advisor. I have video links of him making policy promises to foreign officials, who are paying him for “consulting services”.https://t.co/HmNtJV696S
— Portlus Glam (@PortlusGlam) October 25, 2018
Delhi’s #Mohalla clinics are a great model for countries looking to scale up PHC-led UHC #WHA72 America take note https://t.co/olEbkcCwFA
— Rob Yates (@yates_rob) May 20, 2019
This is an important update on FB’s Community Standards enforcement. It includes new estimates on the prevalence of terrorist content on FB. https://t.co/zh7EhO4d6a
— Brian Fishman (@brianfishman) May 23, 2019
Facebook banned 2.2 billion fake accounts in Q1 2019, almost double what it took down in Q4 2018. https://t.co/kjyhHXYIMz pic.twitter.com/Al4gSYJ3ii
— Rob Price (@robaeprice) May 23, 2019
Facebook just dropped a bunch of data about its communities standards enforcement, 1 stat that's kind of mind boggling: FB removed 1.2 BILLION fake accounts in Q4 2018 https://t.co/I9v16fOxnw
— Karissa Bell (@karissabe) May 23, 2019
As we've ramped up work on safety, we know it's not enough to just do the work, we also have to be open about it. Today we're publishing our 3rd community standards enforcement report, which includes metrics about how we're doing at enforcing our policies https://t.co/UXH0HPNYLP
— Guy Rosen (@guyro) May 23, 2019
Facebook says it now proactively detects 65% of the hate speech content it removes, up from 24% in late 2017 https://t.co/H1YdPHukZ3 pic.twitter.com/kKXFx2teAW
— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) May 23, 2019
Wait...
— Marco Ricorda (@marcoRecorder) May 23, 2019
3 BILLION?
Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled https://t.co/DUjY9IUyas
Facebook: Another three billion fake profiles culled https://t.co/QlHLPelp5y
— Ajita Kadirgamar (@AjitaKad) May 24, 2019
"During that six-month period, #Facebook removed more than three billion fake accounts."
— Bruno Borges (@brunoborges) May 24, 2019
Facebook is a bubble.https://t.co/8H1QilxF3d
Hardys been busy! https://t.co/m1giItDPt7
— Kevin Wright (@Kev1862) May 24, 2019
Another??? Another 3,000,000,000?!?@zcobb @thespybrief https://t.co/1epWo0SuTR
— Chey Cobb, cissp, lsmft, hriitplayn (@chey_cobb) May 23, 2019
Facebook has removed 3 billion fake profiles during the past six monthshttps://t.co/lZG6CJMjYs
— Office of the Privacy Commissioner (@NZPrivacy) May 23, 2019
#HumamTrafficking
— therealdeal (@podobensky) May 24, 2019
✔️ Washington DC Cop Gets
14 Years for
#ChildSexTrafficking
Article herehttps://t.co/pNJTgSH4Lk#PedoGateNews pic.twitter.com/Mgpra5ytfu
This ? is WRONG. Asylum seekers should be welcomed in the United States, not turned away and forced to wait in dangerous conditions. https://t.co/0gY5S8nJue #RefugeesShouldBeWelcome pic.twitter.com/BnreENsIeD
— Human Rights First (@humanrights1st) May 24, 2019
Prioritizing partisan politics over people means:
— Human Rights First (@humanrights1st) May 23, 2019
✖️ Desperate families stranded
✖️ Lives threatened
✖️ Tragic consequenceshttps://t.co/0gY5S8nJue pic.twitter.com/oyoEWoCvKq
2.2 Billion fake accounts...
— Rev. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) May 24, 2019
To put that in perspective, FB claims 2.38 active accounts each month.
Many of these accounts were automated registrations & FB claims only 5% of monthly users are fake, but the number does NOT include DENIED registrations.https://t.co/wlfiDrKWTo
#Facebook removed 2.2B fake accounts this year, almost half the number of its active user base. Via @FortuneMagazine. #infosec #Cybersecurity #DFIR #cybercrime #OSINT https://t.co/5UAb5ybpJ8
— Brent Muir (@bsmuir) May 24, 2019
Fewer than 0.03% of content views on FB are of terrorist content. That’s a maximum estimate. It’s really hard to provide clarity on content this uncommon, so big kudos to the data science team that pulled this together. https://t.co/HM0hXRG3XS pic.twitter.com/Y8V1aXvBwP
— Brian Fishman (@brianfishman) May 23, 2019
#Facebook removed more than 3 Billion fake accounts over the last 6 months. Their problems are far from over and appear to be getting worse. See below link for the full report out of $FB today. #tech #privacy #data https://t.co/0tjUxCVnyx
— Wilshire Phoenix (@WilshirePhoenix) May 24, 2019
meanwhile, 0.03% of content views on Facebook being of terrorist content is ... pretty bad. https://t.co/NhWVvlxSMa
— krassenstein's monster (@Theophite) May 24, 2019
‘An Update on How We Are Doing At Enforcing Our Community Standards’ by @facebook https://t.co/HANvUyQyMN
— Program On Extremism (@gwupoe) May 23, 2019