Government requests for Facebook data up
b"The number of government requests for user data have climbed to a new record, Facebook said in its biannual transparency report. Those requests rose 16% during the first half of 2019 to 128,617, Facebook wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. That's up from the 25,607 government requests in 2013, the first year Facebook published that data. Not surprisingly, the U.S. has submitted the most requests so far in 2019 at 50,714, according to Facebook. Those requests asked for data from 82,461 total users/accounts. Facebook also said Wednesday that it had shut down over 5 BILLION fake accounts in 2019. In 2018 they only removed 3.3 billion. ABC News' Cheri Preston looks at the numbers and joins Tony with a breakdown."