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Facebook removes more than 3 billion fake accounts

Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook has removed more than three billion fake accounts from its platform in a huge crackdown.

The social media giant has revealed that from October 2018 - March 2019, it disabled 3.3 million accounts.

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