Facebook has discontinued more than one million accounts from the world’s most popular social media platforms as part of a cleanliness campaign.
Facebook owner Meta Meta said that the step was taken to ‘remove spam content’ and promote real accounts. However, some consumers complained of wrong action.
Facebook confirmed the number of closed accounts in its blog post and revealed that more than 1 million accounts were closed every month in the first six months of 2025.
The company wrote in its blog post, ‘Often the same meme or video is repeated. Sometimes by accounts that show themselves from the original manufacturer and sometimes different fraud accounts.
‘This process creates everyone’s experience and makes it difficult for new sounds. We are introducing strict measures to reduce non -orriers on Facebook to protect and promote creators sharing the original material. ,
Dozens of users shared similar experiences about the removal of their accounts on social media, despite having legitimate accounts, some accused the systems of misusing their accounts.
A user wrote in a post on the Redt Forum Meta Loss, ‘It seems that the ability to connect is taking away an algorithm that makes sense.
‘Our business is hurting because we are having difficulty reaching customers, having difficulty in maintaining business contacts and relationships, while my son’s autism support network has been cut, which makes us feel helpless. It looks inhuman, inappropriate and extremely heartbreaking. ,
The process of closing a large -cyl account, known as ‘Meta bin Banning Wave’, also affected the Meta -owned Instagram users.
Independent contacted the company for more comments about removing independent accounts.
Every user whose account is finished will receive an email about this action.
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Facebook users can appeal against the suspension of their account within 180 days according to the company’s support pages, after which the account will be permanently closed.
The process of shutting down largescale accounts is taking place when other technical companies are also busy cleaning their platforms.
In 2023, Google announced that it would close all passive Gmail, photos and drive accounts. This step is still affecting millions of users.
Earlier, the head of the Meta Mark Zuckerberg proposed more stringent Facebook cleaning measures to increase the engagement of consumers.
In 2022, Mark Zuckerberg sent an internal email that plans to remove friends from all Facebook users.
Mark Zuckerberg has written to the company officials that ‘one of the crazy -based schemes is to completely eliminate and give them an opportunity to completely eliminate and recur.’ Officials opposed the plan.