US EditionMeta Targets Spam, Removes 10 Million Facebook Impersonator Profiles
FACEBOOK (META) PLATFORM, JUL 16 – Meta removed 10 million fake profiles impersonating major content creators and penalized 500,000 spam accounts to improve Facebook’s content authenticity in early 2025.
- Meta has removed about 10 million profiles impersonating large content creators in the first half of 2025 to combat spammy content.
- The company penalized 500,000 accounts for spam-like behavior by demoting their comments and reducing post distribution.
- Accounts improperly reusing others' content will lose access to Facebook monetization programs, according to Meta's policy.
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To combat spam, more than ten million profiles have been deleted from Facebook by the group behind it, Meta, in the first half of 2025. This is reported by the American media CNBC. Meta deletes profi...
Meta targets spam, removes 10 million Facebook impersonator profiles
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