Facebook gets better at spotting fake accounts, spammers

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While you’re busy browsing through photos from your friends and liking their opinionated political rantings, Facebook engineers are busy trying to weed out fake accounts and comment spam, and apparently they’re making progress.

First Facebook announced it’s making progress in “protecting the integrity of activity” on the social network: basically busting fake accounts that aren’t connected to real people and stopping people from buying and selling likes or other types of engagement.

Facebook says its algorithms are getting better at spotting fake accounts automatically, and that tens of thousands of dodgy profiles were recently removed in France alone. However, Facebook admits

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