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referring to The presence of fake accounts was so large that it accounted for half of USA Today's Facebook followers, amounting to millions of accounts, according to the newspaper. While fake accounts appear all over Facebook, it is not clear why USA Today was the target of particularly large numbers of phony users. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said after the election that the company was not responsible for influencing voters and spreading fake news. Gannett Co., the company that owns USA Today and more than 100 other local media organizations, has asked the FBI to investigate a slew of fake Facebook accounts that followed the newspaper on the social media site. ADVERTISEMENTThe spread of fake news stories on prominent social media platforms like Facebook has become an increasingly high-profile issue since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
as declared in Gannett contacted the FBI Wednesday after realizing the influx of fake accounts was "not stopping," chief transformation officer Maribel Wadsworth told USA Today. The publisher said the remaining likes on its Facebook pages still include millions of fake accounts. USA Today was the largest outlet affected in the purge of fake likes three weeks ago. An analysis by CBS News found 38.3 percent of the paper's total Facebook likes were eliminated in the days after Facebook announced the action. Both Gannett and Facebook said Saturday that the motivation behind targeting USA Today remains unknown.
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referring to The presence of fake accounts was so large that it accounted for half of USA Today's Facebook followers, amounting to millions of accounts, according to the newspaper. While fake accounts appear all over Facebook, it is not clear why USA Today was the target of particularly large numbers of phony users. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said after the election that the company was not responsible for influencing voters and spreading fake news. Gannett Co., the company that owns USA Today and more than 100 other local media organizations, has asked the FBI to investigate a slew of fake Facebook accounts that followed the newspaper on the social media site. ADVERTISEMENTThe spread of fake news stories on prominent social media platforms like Facebook has become an increasingly high-profile issue since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
as declared in Gannett contacted the FBI Wednesday after realizing the influx of fake accounts was "not stopping," chief transformation officer Maribel Wadsworth told USA Today. The publisher said the remaining likes on its Facebook pages still include millions of fake accounts. USA Today was the largest outlet affected in the purge of fake likes three weeks ago. An analysis by CBS News found 38.3 percent of the paper's total Facebook likes were eliminated in the days after Facebook announced the action. Both Gannett and Facebook said Saturday that the motivation behind targeting USA Today remains unknown.
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US newspaper asks FBI to probe rise in fake Facebook followers
US newspaper asks FBI to probe rise in fake Facebook followersReuters Facebook has said in filings with the Securities and Exchange commission that it estimates about 1% of its monthly worldwide active users are "misclassified" accounts. She declined to reveal how many fake accounts Facebook had discovered. 'Numbers game'In one way or another, fake Facebook accounts are usually designed to make money. When Facebook purged the fake accounts in April, it cut 200 million fake likes from the pages of major publishers, including 20,000 from the UK's Guardian. "Beyond that, it would depend on what they did with the fake accounts."to read more visit us Facebook
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