Facebook is overrun with fake accounts impersonating tech execs like Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and Sundar Pichai

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Imposters are thriving on Facebook, despite the company's attempts to crack down on fake accounts.

Facebook is overrun with fake accounts pretending to be famous technology industry executives.

The existence of the accounts raise questions about Facebook's ability to police its app for malicious behaviour. There are dozens of personal profiles on the platform purporting to be tech luminaries ranging from YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki to Evan Spiegel, head of Snapchat's parent company Snap — often misleading ordinary, actual Facebook users who have crowded onto their profiles to ask questions, complain, and otherwise try to interact with them.

In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said:"We use sophisticated technology and reporting tools to detect accounts set up to impersonate other people. That's a clear violation of our policies and our teams are continually improving our technology and processes to keep imposter accounts like these off Facebook.

 

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Breaking news: noone uses facebook anymore.

I'm unfollowing BI for this furphy article.

And so is Twitter

So is twitter. Too many trolls.

Fake doesn’t necessarily equal to bad

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