This archive report was first published on 13 November 2019.
Published on November 13, 2019, Facebook's latest transparency report highlights the company's efforts to combat fake accounts and tackle sensitive content.
According to the report, Facebook estimates that it prevents millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day using its detection systems.
The social network believes that fake accounts, where someone pretends to be a person or entity that does not exist, represented about five percent of its worldwide monthly active users during the second and third quarters of 2019.
Facebook has invested heavily in finding and taking down accounts crafted to deceive people about where information is originating, particularly when spread as part of coordinated campaigns with political or social agendas.
Government demands for user information hit a new high, led by the US, with a 16 percent increase to 128,617 requests in the first half of 2019.
"Of the total volume, the US continues to submit the largest number of requests, followed by India, the UK, Germany, and France," the report stated.
Facebook received 50,741 requests from the US for information regarding 82,461 accounts, with roughly two-thirds of those done in a way prohibiting the social network from letting users know about inquiries.
"We always scrutinize every government request we receive for account data to make sure it is legally valid," Facebook deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby said in an online post about the latest figures.
"This is true no matter which government makes the request."
