«Last year in 2017 with the special election in Alabama, we deployed some new AI tools to
identify fake accounts and false news, and we found a significant number of Macedonian accounts that were trying to spread false news, and were able to eliminate those,» Zuckerberg said.
In 2017 with the special election in Alabama, we deployed some new A.I. tools to
identify fake accounts and false news, and we found a significant number of Macedonian accounts that were trying to spread false news, and were able to eliminate those.
He says Facebook has deployed new artificial intelligence tools that do a better job
identifying fake accounts.
Not exact matches
On the elections front, Zuckerberg highlighted efforts to
identify misinformation and remove «tens of thousands» of
fake accounts sharing content related to elections in France and Germany, as well as a special Senate election in the United States.
Although Stamos did not
identify any specific ads posted by the
fake accounts, he did say this:
They want the court to demand Facebook remove similar — not only identical — postings, and to make it
identify holders of
fake accounts.
We build and update technical systems every day to make it easier to respond to reports of abuse, detect and remove spam,
identify and eliminate
fake accounts, and prevent
accounts from being compromised.
Dating sites need to: * Crack down on scammers by
identifying and shutting down the
accounts of those who pay with stolen credit cards, checking IP addresses to verify profiles» listed locations; employing algorithms to detect suspicious language patterns used by scammers; and using image searches to
identify fake profiles used across various dating websites.
And removing an
account that's been
identified as a
fake — with the help of government intelligence — is perhaps easier for Twitter than judging whether a particular piece of robust speech might have crossed the line into harassment or hate speech.
«For many months now, I have been pushing Facebook to more aggressively investigate and
identify Russian - linked
fake accounts on their platform,» Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, said in an emailed statement.
Facebook investigators
identified around 3,000 advertisements that ran from June of 2015 to May of 2017 and were linked to
fake accounts controlled from Russia that spent around $ 100,000 to run the campaign.
This followed the revelation that at least 470
fake Pages and
accounts were
identified by Facebook to have spent approximately $ 100,000 on promoted ads from 2015 to 2016.
In his interview with the New York Times, he said Facebook learned from the 2016 election and since then has implemented tools that helped
identify 30,000
fake accounts believed to be linked to Russia that «were trying to do the same kind of tactics they did in the U.S. in the 2016 election.»