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116 million fake accounts

In its securities filings, Facebook has provided estimates of how many fake accounts are on its service. These estimates have varied widely, from 18.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2016 to 116 million last quarter.

But the estimates don’t square with the number of fake accounts the company says it has removed — over a recent 12-month stretch, that number was as many as 2.8 billion fake accounts. [The New York Times]

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