Article 52GY1 Accepting Lots of Friend Requests Makes You a Fake Account Target, Facebook Finds

Accepting Lots of Friend Requests Makes You a Fake Account Target, Facebook Finds

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Whitney Kimball
from Gizmodo on (#52GY1)
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If your Facebook feed is teeming with wild Deep State theories, that might be on you, a Facebook study has found. Two researchers from Facebook and one from Harvard tested an algorithm that looks at your friending activity to detect fake accounts, or sybils. The paper shows that an outlying group of people who accept"

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