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Meta Targets Spam, Removes 10 Million Facebook Impersonator Profiles
UNITED STATES, JUL 16 – Meta removed 10 million impersonating Facebook profiles and penalized 500,000 spam accounts to protect authentic creators and improve content quality, with gradual rollout starting mid-2025.
- Meta has removed about 10 million profiles impersonating large content creators in the first half of 2025 to combat spammy content.
- The company penalized 500,000 accounts for spam-like behavior by demoting their comments and reducing post distribution.
- Accounts improperly reusing others' content will lose access to Facebook monetization programs, according to Meta's policy.
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Facebook Deletes 10 Million Accounts, Says Account Purge Will Continue
Facebook announced this week that it has deleted some 10 million accounts that were engaging in spam activities and warned that more will be removed from the social media platform in the coming days. The company said on July 14 that it took action targeting roughly 500,000 accounts that it said had “engaged in spammy behavior or fake engagement,” including “measures ranging from demoting their comments and reducing the distribution of their cont…
Facebook goes through hard: millions of accounts have been deleted. Certain posts now lead to blocking – without warning, without return. The rules have changed.
To combat spam, more than ten million profiles have been deleted from Facebook by the group behind it, Meta, in the first half of 2025. This is reported by the American media CNBC. Meta deletes profi...
Meta targets spam, removes 10 million Facebook impersonator profiles
In the first half of 2025, Meta removed about 10 million Facebook profiles impersonating large content creators. Separately, the company introduced new penalties — including reduced reach and restricted monetization — for accounts that repeatedly repost unoriginal content without permission or meaningful edits. The company also penalized 500,000 accounts for spam-like behavior, demoting their comments, reducing post distribution and restricting …
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