The number of fake accounts on Facebook is ridiculous, and deeply calls into question all the monthly active user metrics that Facebook likes to boast about. Counting just the fake accounts that Facebook found, they deleted half a billion of them in the first quarter of this year:
Figure they’re finding only one in three fake accounts (reasonable since they’re using robots to find them and the fake accounts are being manufactured by humans so they look real), means there have to be something like a billion undeleted fake accounts, nearly half their total active userbase.
