This is just the usual 'steps are being taken' bullshit.

With inauthentic accounts it's a question of hydra's heads - they suspend one, and two more join. They know that. They saw it, as did we, even before the 77-country expansion. Obviously it was going to get worse. They couldn't deal with it before the expension, they sure as hell couldn't in the aftermath, and they can't now, whatever they might try.

The whole backend of medium is lousy and unreliable, even simple functions. Have you ever been recommended to follow yourself? I have, many times. Yet this is impossible. They have a computerised system which asks users to perform an action which that same system prohibits. They are Keystone Cops. They aren't going to catch even a tenth of the robbers.