A new fake account problem has recently bedeviled Facebook. The Menlo Park, Calif. tech company's platform is reportedly filled with fraudulent accounts impersonating scores of Silicon Valley's most powerful executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Facebook's policies ask users to go by their real names and verified, higher-profile users such as tech CEOs tend to have blue checkmarks next to their official profiles. That's a clear violation of our policies and our teams are continually improving our technology and processes to keep imposter accounts like these off Facebook," Facebook said in a statement to Business Insider. Early this year, Facebook estimated that as many as 116 million fake accounts exist on its platform.

Source: Fox News May 17, 2019 16:41 UTC