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This dataset is relevant to AI safety discussions on misuse risks, particularly the use of AI-powered bots and fake accounts for influence operations; it provides empirical scale data for how platforms respond to coordinated inauthentic behavior.

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This Statista page tracks quarterly statistics on the number of fake accounts removed by Facebook (Meta), providing longitudinal data on the platform's automated and manual enforcement efforts against inauthentic accounts. It serves as a quantitative reference for the scale of coordinated inauthentic behavior and bot activity on major social platforms.

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•Tracks billions of fake account removals per quarter, illustrating the massive scale of inauthentic activity on Facebook.
•Data sourced from Meta's own transparency reports, offering an official but self-reported view of enforcement actions.
•Useful for benchmarking the effectiveness of bot-detection and content moderation systems over time.
•Highlights the ongoing challenge of platform integrity even with large-scale automated detection tools.
•Relevant context for AI safety discussions around misuse of AI to generate and operate fake personas at scale.

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 In the third quarter of 2025, Facebook took action on 698 million fake accounts, down from 687 million in the previous quarter. A record figure of approximately 2.2 billion fake profiles were removed by the social media platform in the first quarter of 2019. Meta considers fake accounts to be those that are created with malicious intent or created to represent a business, organization, or non-human entity. 

 Facebook and inauthentic activity

 As Facebook is the most used social media platform worldwide, it is not surprising that the service is a target for inauthentic activity and potentially harmful content. Facebook's parent company, Meta, has regulations in place known as Facebook Community Standards that outline what is and is not permitted on the network. Spam content is an ongoing issue that the platform faces, with 1.4 million pieces of spam content being removed in the third quarter of 2022. 

 Facebook’s ongoing popularity

 The vast majority of internet users have awareness of Facebook as a brand. Almost all social media users in the United States are aware of Facebook , and three-quarters of U.S. social media users have a Facebook account. Furthermore, despite the idea that Facebook is most popular among older generations, its largest U.S. demographic can be found with users aged 25 to 34 years.

 
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 Actioned fake accounts on Facebook worldwide from 4th quarter 2017 to 3rd quarter 2025 
 
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 Characteristic Number of removed fake accounts in millions Q3 2025 698 Q2 2025 687 Q1 2025 1,000 Q4 2024 1,400 Q3 2024 1,100 Q2 2024 1,200 Q1 2024 631 Q4 2023 691 Q3 2023 827 Q2 2023 676 Q1 2023 426 Q4 2022 1,300 Q3 2022 1,500 Q2 2022 1,400 Q1 2022 1,600 Q4 2021 1,700 Q3 2021 1,800 Q2 2021 1,700 Q1 2021 1,300 Q4 2020 1,100 Q3 2020 817.1 Q2 2020 791 Q1 2020 1,700 Q4 2019 1,100 Q3 2019 1,700 Q2 2019 1,500 Q1 2019 2,200 Q4 2018 1,200 Q3 2018 754 Q2 2018 800.3 Q1 2018 583 Q4 2017 694 
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 Release date
 December 2025

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 Survey time period Q4 2017 to Q3 2025

 Special properties fake accounts that were successfully created but later removed by Facebook, does not include unsuccessful attempts to create fake accounts that were blocked at the time of registration

 
 Supplementary notes
 According to Facebook, "our goal is to remove as many fake accounts on Facebook as we can. We prioritize enforcement against users and accounts that se

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