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Meta removes 10 million Facebook profiles in effort to combat spam (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/technology@piefed.social
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[–] AGD4@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

10 million down. 1.99 billion to go.

[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

In effort to remove competition for the spambot profiles that they can control and profit from.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

This.

It's token decimation per the original definition. 🤌🏼

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 4 weeks ago

and replace with 10million bots controlled by android zuckerberg.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

“Only WE may spam our users!”

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago

I bet the email received read something like this:

"Hello, your spam account has been flagged as spam because our systems detected you have not spent enough money on our platform. To continue using your spam operations, please spend a minimum of 100 USD per profile per month."