After the US election and the appearance of facebook in US congress the policies have become more strict, and chances of creating fake accounts has been decreased by a numerous amount.
Facebook is now giving extra special care to verification of user identity. and not allowing anyone to have more than one ID, as described in its policy.
Facebook has also blocked many third party application which are reportedly been involved in the data stealing process.
Is Facebook Gonna End Because of User Data Policy?
Facebook has revealed 30m accounts were affected in a data breach last month. The company said hackers were able to access personal information for nearly half of those accounts.
That information included name, relationship status, religion, birthdate, workplaces, search activity, and recent location check-ins. The company had initially said 50m accounts were affected.
According to Facebook VP of Product Management Guy Rosen, attackers were able to access name and contact information for half of the hacked accounts. For 14m, the attackers were also able to scrape virtually all the other data available on members’ profile pages. One million victims got away without any information being stolen.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/12/facebook-data-breach-personal-information-hackers
Facebook has also been developing its AI technology which will help it in stopping the data stealing events and in getting rid of fake accounts.
Apparently after the facebook appearance in Congress it seems like the black clouds have gone for a while, But unless the main issue (Data Stealing) is not processed, these events will go on and facebook may face hard times because of them.
