The old Social Media users are now annoyed by Facebook due to fake profiles and spam accounts. Including myself, I left Facebook last year due to the same reason. But now Meta has taken major action against these spam and Facebook fake profiles.
According to the sources, Meta, Facebook has launched a powerful spam cleaner, which will remove almost 10 million Facebook fake profiles and half a million spam accounts in its first cycle. This step is being taken to protect the original Facebook content creators. This will help to improve user experience and limit monetization for repeat wrongdoers.
According to Forbes, Unoriginal content: Meta will start stripping the monetization perks from and avoid recommending content from accounts that continuously fill the company platforms with unoriginal content, to combat the wave of AI-generated spam on Facebook.
Whereas traditional content theft relies on a human to build a mirror image of a target site, AI programs can now output thousands of near-paraphrases of popular posts and spam platforms with fake content while damaging the reputation and revenue of the human who created the original post.
The policy is mainly intended to benefit legitimate content publishers who have bemoaned AI-generated posts saturating the web and replacing original work. Content creators can continue to share and comment on other people’s work, but must include “meaningful enhancements” beyond a simple watermark or basic editing to avoid a penalty.
Meta also confirmed that, alongside fake profile removals, about 500,000 accounts showing spammy behavior, such as constant copy-pasted posts or fraud activity, had their comments downgraded and diffusion-limited.
The platform aims to ensure original creators receive proper visibility and recognition, rather than being drowned out by low-effort content.
The company is also testing attribution tools that link derivative content back to its source, giving creators the credit and accountability they deserve when others reuse their work.
The same meme or clip keeps appearing again and again, sometimes by accounts impersonating the original creator, other times by completely different spammy accounts. This blunts the experience for everyone and makes it more difficult for new voices to be heard,” the company said in a blog post.
Facebook said the new policy will also include reducing the distribution of duplicate videos and posts, testing attribution links that connect copied content back to original creators, and surfacing original content higher up in the feed. The revisions will be implemented over several months.
