In addition this year, Facebook closed 5.4 billion false accounts

So far, as of this year, Facebook has closed 5.4 billion false accounts, while millions of other accounts on this platform continue to remain active. Compared to the 3.3 billion false accounts that were closed last year.

About five percent of the accounts that open within a month are false, yet this social network has advanced technology to close these accounts once they are opened, it transmits Telegrafi.

This step was taken by Facebook as a challenge to clear false accounts before the election campaign in the United States began in the 2020 elections.

Analysts and observer guards are seeking a wave of false and deceptive content, on social networks following findings concerning interventions in the 2016 elections.

Facebook Director General Mark Zuckerber has announced at a meeting of reporters, the sum of false accounts that have left the platform, while asking other platforms to do the same.

Because the number of these accounts is high doesn't mean it has such harmful content. The number is high, because we're working to get as many of them as we can, said Zuckerberg. The number of false accounts peaked at the beginning of the year, when Facebook said it closed more than two billion in the period between January and March.

Over the next three months, Facebook has further removed nearly 1.5 billion while working to develop as much technology as possible to identify and close these accounts as they have been opened. But the number has risen again, as from June through September, another 1.7 billion accounts have been dropped.

The announcement comes as part of new Facebook changes, for increased transparency, while it is the first time shown in terms of false accounts that have been closed in the Instagram.

Over three million accounts have been sealed in the Instagram until September of this year, after being found to be dealing with the sale of drugs, and another 95 thousand because of the sale of weapons.

All these interventions were made after Facebook was criticised by various human rights groups, because it contained unworthy content, while required that the situation become better.