Facebook Eradicate “Likes” if Their Automated System says They Should

  
Facebook ramped up efforts Friday to get rid of “Likes” that aren’t from people genuinely interested in giving a virtual thumbs up to pages at the world’s leading social network.

“We have recently increased our automated efforts to remove Likes on pages that may have been gained by means that violate our Facebook terms” of service, the Facebook security team said in a blog post.

Facebook has long given members the ability to endorse pages at the social network by clicking on “Like” icons.

“These newly improved automated efforts will remove those Likes gained by malware, compromised accounts, deceived users or purchased bulk Likes.”

High numbers of Likes can give “fan count” status to pages, particularly those dedicated to brands.

“A Like that doesn’t come from someone truly interested in connecting with a page benefits no one,” Facebook said.

“This improvement will allow pages to produce ever more relevant and interesting content, and brands will see an increase in the true engagement around their content.”

Facebook expected that less than one percent of the fan count on any given page would be trimmed as a result of the crackdown on “suspicious Likes.”

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By the way this blogger got a mess at FB saying he could not send messages for 14 days and 4 hrs.?? Im still messaging friends but that particular Mess did not go thru. I did Make a big deal with them in writing from human being to their computer, but with FB unless is the government looking for your information, which they give and have given, no body has cloud over there. Particularly now as a public entity. Public means things are done and decided but there is no body to assign responsibility. What have we created with these people? LOL! There are members that have said something about sex(gay), the church and politics and someone did not like it, so they complaint that they are being abused or bullied by the speech. Bingo, you get a reprimand and may be a blockage for x days and 4 hours, don’t forget the four hours..that could destroy the system if you go back to messaging in 3 hours 59 minutes. No explanation of what you said, so you could defend your self or who accused of it.  People use the system put in place to correct all the bad things FB have done, from giving a forum to skin heads, to gay haters, bullying by ex lovers or picking up kids for porno and sex. Now the Foxes are guarding the chickens and using the system to bully and shut speech they don’t like.

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