[x86_64Ubuntu]

That's not the point and it's not even related to the discussion. I'm not sure why you are trying to bring in Big Brother nonsense.

The fact of the matter is that there are only 7 billion people on earth, and Facebook had a whopping 3 billion fake accounts. So how did they let it hit 0.5, 1,2 and 3 billion fakes before doing something? Surely with all their algorithms and AI/ML/Data Scientists they could have intervened sooner, but they didn't.

[bryan_w]

This is only for the last six months. They aren't letting the issue fester, but rather there are enough bad actors out there to try 3 billion times to create fake accounts. They are probably deleting 1000s of accounts per day that they detect to be fake

[tyingq]

3 billion in 6 months isn't "1000s...per day". It's ~17 million per day, all caught only after the fact.

I stand by my characterization of "festered".