Facebook rejects the Aaron Greenspan report that half of the users are fake

Facebook has immediately rejected a report by Mark Zuckerberg's former Harvard classmate, claiming that more than half of the social networking users are fake.

The report was released last week by Aaron Greenspan, who studied with billionaire tech executive and claims to have come up with the idea for Facebook first.

In the 75-page study, Greenspan says false accounts make up more than half of Facebook's 2.2 billion users. This opposes Facebook, which in 2017 said that only 2-3% of the accounts on the platform were fake.

"Facebook has lifted the audience about the scale of the problem of counterfeit accounts, which probably exceed 50% of the network. Its official statistics ̵[ads1]1; many of which have stopped reporting quarterly – are contradictory and even farcical," the report said. over his own product. "

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Facebook strongly refused the findings "This is unequivocally wrong, and responsible reporting means reporting of facts, even if it is about false accounts," a Facebook spokesman told Business Insider, but gave no further explanation.

Greenspan has been a vocal critic of Facebook In the past, in August last year, for example, he said the platform caused "countless deaths" because of its addictive properties. bias.

"The author of this report is in the odd position of trying to objectively write a subject to which he has personal ties. Therefore, readers are welcome to reject this analysis as biased, but should be aware that it may still be be right, "he wrote.