Facebook purges tens of thousands of fake accounts to combat spam ring
by Elle Hunt from Technology | The Guardian on (#2KEE5)
Global crackdown on 'inauthentic likes and comments' launched on Friday targeting a single operation
Facebook has purged tens of thousands of fake accounts from its platform as part of an ongoing bid to dismantle a sophisticated global spam operation.
The worldwide crackdown on "inauthentic likes and comments" was launched on Friday and Facebook's security team confirmed the step on Saturday in an official blog post attributed to Shabnam Shaik, a technical program manager, that said the platform had been working to disrupt a single network for six months.
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