Facebook banned an Albanian troll farm supporting exiled Iranian militants
The network had several 'hallmarks' of organized trolling, Facebook said.
Fake accounts
Facebook reveals the AI tool it used to ban 6.6 billion fake accounts
The machine learning model retrains automatically to keep up with spammers.
Twitter admits 'bad actors' exploited phone number matching feature
It says the fake accounts it suspended 'may have ties to state-sponsored actors.'
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Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw paid a Russian troll to spread disinformation
The experiment was meant to prove how easy it is to hire digital henchmen.
Facebook has taken down over 2 billion fake accounts in 2019
The company says it also disabled 1.2 billion in Q4 2018.
