{"id":5986,"date":"2025-11-28T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:24:20","slug":"facebook-tests-tool-remove-fake-low-quality-likes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boostlikes.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/facebook-tests-tool-remove-fake-low-quality-likes","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Tests Tool to Remove Fake and Low Quality Likes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Facebook-Tests-Tool-to-Remove-Fake-and-Low-Quality-Likes\"<\/p>\n

Likes are the bread and butter of Facebook.  They’re the most basic form of currency you have as a user, and they’re the most essential thing you can gather as a business.  Businesses need likes – specifically users liking their page, rather than their content individually – in order to have an audience.  Without those users liking your page, you have nothing.<\/p>\n

This has led to a wide array of possible abuses of the system in the past years.  You had people buying fake likes from robot accounts to boost their like number.  You had people implementing like gates to hide their content from people who don’t like their page.  You had gates one step further, requiring both a like and an app install to see.<\/p>\n

Facebook has been combating this problem, slowly. <\/em><\/strong> They already have a delete on sight policy for robot and fake accounts<\/a>.  They tweaked their EdgeRank algorithm so that fake followers hurt your broadcast range.  They blocked like gates from their service recently.<\/p>\n

Now they’re testing a tool internally to deliver a qualitative judgment about your fans.  Currently, when you visit your users section in Facebook’s Page administration section, you can see individual readouts of:<\/p>\n