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Found her and she's not alive. >> i see her pull up out front, and i go out and stand on the sidewalk. she gets out of her car and comes up to me. and ida says, "dan." she says, "i have some bad news for you." >> dan, she was i.d.'d, and it was her, and they found, you know, she was pregnant.
Is working. >> if you have the scale, though, to be able to remove over the course of six months, 3.39 billion fake accounts and you have the scale to remove, i think -- you i.d.'d -- in that six-month period, 83% of accounts or comments that were selling drugs or doing something illegal or promoting something illegal, you certainly have the scale to decide something that you know is clearly fake. it's not even a question. i guess i still just don't logically understand -- i understand it's a big business to get into of trying to figure out what's true or not, but you're making money by being ...
Come to facebook, you have to use your real identity. that's always been our rule. and we do see that accounts that are fake are engaged in safety violations more than authentic accounts. and by the way, and this is probably not shocking, fake accounts are also more likely to distribute misinformation or fake news. and so part of our effort to combat misinformation, it's not just about working with third party fact checkers. when we remove fake accounts, we are also reducing the chance that these accounts will be sharing misinformation. and i would point out that this is working. >> if you hav...
Comes up to me, and ida says, dan, she says, i have some bad news for you. >> dan, she was i.d.'d, and it was her. they found -- you know, she was pregnant and the baby. it was just very difficult. >> i looked at her in disbelief but knew it was reality. i just could feel all the strength in my body just kind of drain all of a sudden. and i kind of was wobbling a little bit, and ida consoled me a little bit and said, it's okay. it's okay, you know. then she says, is there anything that we can do? do you need anything? i said, no.
>> and i had to tell dan. the hardest part of this whole thing is having to go to somebody's house and say we found her and she's not alive. >> i see her pull up out front, and i go out and stand on the sidewalk. she gets out of her car and comes up to me and ida says, "dan." she says, "i have some bad news for you." >> dan, she was i.d.'d, and it was her, and they found, you know, she was pregnant. and the baby. it was -- it was just very difficult. >> i -- i looked at her in disbelief. but knew it was reality. i just could feel all the strength in my body just kind of just drain all of a sud...