Facebook is taking aim at fake news,
and part of that hunt is snuffing out fake user accounts.
The company said Wednesday it is rolling
out changes to its systems to make it more difficult to create fake accounts
that promote fake news. The aim is recognize patterns of activity, such as
repeated posting of the same content, or an increase in messages sent.
Facebook said the changes allowed it
to identify and eliminate more than 30,000 fake accounts in France.
"By constantly improving our
techniques, we also aim to reduce the financial incentives for spammers who
rely on distribution to make their efforts worthwhile," Shabnam Shaik, a
technical program manager at Facebook, wrote in a Facebook post.
The abundance of fake news on the
internet in the lead up to President Donald Trump's victory last year has
become a hot button issue, entangling tech giants like Facebook and Google. Numerous
allegations have been made that the fake news shared on the social networks
helped Trump win.
On Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg likened the fake-news problem to how click-bait articles used to
proliferate on the social network. Instead of becoming the arbiters of what was
or wasn't click-bait, Zuckerberg's team trained a computer to learn from the
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