• Facebook fake account deletion per quarter 2021

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In the fourth quarter of 2021, Facebook took action on 1.7 billion fake accounts, down from 1.8 billion in the previous quarter. In the first quarter of 2019, a record figure of approximately 2.2 billion fake accounts were removed by the social media platform.

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Release date

March 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

Q4 2017 to Q4 2021

Special properties

Fake accounts that were successfully created but later removed by Facebook, does not include unsuccessful attempts to create fake accounts that were blocked at the time of registration

Supplementary notes

According to Facebook, "our goal is to remove as many fake accounts on Facebook as we can. We prioritize enforcement against users and accounts that seek to cause harm and find many of these fake accounts are used in spam campaigns and are financially motivated."