How many fake accounts does Facebook remove each quarter?

Internet brutal Data from 2023

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Answer in accounts. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

1,200,000,000 accounts

Roughly 1.2B.

Meta removes around 1.2 billion fake Facebook accounts every quarter — more accounts than most platforms have users. The vast majority are caught within minutes of creation by automated systems.

Where this number comes from

Source Meta Community Standards Enforcement Report
Figure refers to 2023
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