Facebook has a big problem with fake accounts — and the company knows it. In just three months, Facebook might take down almost as many fake accounts as there are real ones on the site. The social network today revealed its latest method of finding the fakes: a new machine learning model it calls Deep Entity Classification (DEC). Facebook says the system has already detected hundreds of millions of violating accounts. DEC was designed to overcome the limitations of traditional methods of detecting fake accounts, which typically focus on the user profile. This can work pretty well when an account…
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