Meta removes 10 million Facebook profiles in effort to combat spam
Mark Zuckerberg, commodity CEO, looks at US President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025 on the opening day of the second presidential period in Washington before lunch.
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Meta On Monday, in the first half of 2025, the company said that it has removed approximately 10 million profiles to mimic large content producers as part of the company’s effort to combat “spam content”.
Pressing is part of the meta’s effort to make Facebook feed more relevant and authentic by taking action against accounts that fall into the “spam” behaviors such as content created using artificial intelligence tools.
As part of this attempt, Meta offers more strict measures from the creators to promote original publications. A blog post.
Facebook also took action against approximately 500,000 accounts that it has determined that it was dealing with non -summary behavior and spam. These actions include reducing the distribution of content aimed at collapse of comments and making it difficult for these accounts to make money from their publications.
Meta said that the non -original content, images or videos were reused without credit to the original creator. Meta said it has technology that will detect repetitive videos and reduce the distribution of this content.
The action against spam and original content emerges by increasing the AI investment, CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to spend “hundreds of billions of dollars” on the AI calculation infrastructure to make the company’s first supervishes online next year.
This task comes at a time when AI makes it easier to mass production on social media platforms. Other platforms, also known as “AI Slop” spam spam, is taking action to combat the increase in low quality content.
Google’s Youtube He announced a change in politics This month, the mass produced or recurrent content prevents it from being suitable for income.
This announcement has led to confusion on social media, and many users believe that this is reversed in Youtube’s AI’s attitude. However, Youtube has announced that the policy change aims to prevent non -original, spam and recurrent videos.
Youtube’s spokesman, “Creators, we welcome to use AI tools to improve storytelling, and the channels that use AI in their content are suitable for making money.” He said. In a blog post To clarify the new policy.
Youtube’s new policy change will come into force on Tuesday.
