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Facebook removed more than 3 billion fake accounts from October to March, twice as many as the previous six months, the company said Thursday. Nearly all of them were caught before they had a chance to become "active" users of the social network. In a new report, Facebook said it saw a "steep increase" in the creation of abusive, fake accounts. While most of these fake accounts were blocked "within minutes" of their creation, the use of computers to generate millions of accounts at a time meant not only that Facebook caught more of the fake accounts, but that more of them slipped through. As a result, the company estimates that 5% of its 2.4 billion monthly active users are fake accounts, or about 119 million. This is up from an estimated 3% to 4% in the previous six-month report...

The top spy catcher of the United States has announced that Chinese intelligence agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts for the purpose of recruiting Americans with access to government and commercial secrets. They have stated that the company should shut them down. The U.S. counter-intelligence chief, William Evanina has accused China of using fake LinkedIn accounts to carry out the "super aggressive" spy campaign. He told that the Chinese campaign includes contacting thousands of LinkedIn members at a time. However, he refused to tell the number of fake accounts U.S. intelligence had discovered, the number of Americans may have been contacted and also the number of success China has had in the recruitment drive. "I recently saw that Twitter is cancelling, I don't know, millions of...

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USA Accuses China of Using Fake LinkedIn Accounts