Twitter Deletes Nearly 400,000 Terrorism-Related Accounts

Twitter has stated that they shut down 377,000 Twitter accounts in the second half of 2016 for promoting terrorism on the social media platform. Following pressure to crack down on terrorism-linked accounts on their platform, Twitter has revealed in their latest transparency report that between July 1 and December 31, 2016, as many as 377,000 possibly terrorism-related accounts have been suspended from the platform. According to the report, 74 percent of the accounts suspended were “surfaced” or recognized by internal spam-fighting robots. -- More...