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Meta's AI banned 5.6M fake accounts in 6 months, flagged 97% without human review

Meta deployed artificial intelligence to automatically detect and remove fake accounts from Facebook and Instagram over a six-month period, banning 5.6 million accounts and flagging 97% of them before any human reviewer saw them.

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