Facebook has not gotten its fake account problem under control — yet — but it appears to be making progress.
In its annual report, Facebook said that the number of duplicate accounts on its network had risen to 5 percent of all accounts in Q4 2012, up from 4.8 percent in Q2 2012.
However, the number of accidentally misclassified accounts and the number of abusive accounts (run by spammers and the like) has declined.
Overall, the total percentage of fake accounts declined from 8.7 percent to 7.2 percent. In whole numbers, the number of duplicate accounts went up from about 45.8 million to 52.8 million; but the total number of fake accounts (which includes abusive and misclassified accounts) declined from 83 million to 76 million over the last six months...
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