Facebook becomes more aggressive in the sights of governments around the world to' clean up' its platform and free it from inappropriate content. An aggressiveness that emerges clearly from the latest data released by the social network: in the first three months of the year, 2.2 billion false accounts were removed. A budget that, if we consider the October-March period, rises to over 3 billion.
Because Facebook has 2.4 billion friends, these are high figures. But - the company specifies-most accounts were removed in the minutes after their creation and are therefore not included in the monthly and daily user data, a parameter closely followed by investors. So these are accounts that could probably be seen and accessed by very few. However, Facebook notes a sharp increase in false accounts creation: the company estimates that 5 percent of its 2.4 billion active monthly users, or about 119 million, are active. "We will continue to find ways to block attempts to break our policies," assures Facebook, which reports that 110,634 user data requests have been received from governments around the world, "The amount of our security budget is higher than the annual revenue of Twitter," commented CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the publication of the Community Standard Enforcement Report and the Transparency Report. Zuckerberg also dwells on the proposal made to dismember Facebook by some Democratic candidates in the White House because it has become too strong, a monopoly. Due to the large number of existing social platforms, we exist in a very competitive context.'' "Because we've reached a point where I don't think companies should make all the decisions, there should be rules.