Twitter banned nearly 5,000 accounts associated with foreign governments in a crackdown on disinformation and hoaxes ahead of election season
Iran bears the majority of banned accounts, a total of 4,779 associated or backed by the Iranian government grouped by strategy. The first set, 1,666 accounts, tweeted global news angled in favor of the
Iranian government. The second set, 248 accounts, engaged in contentious discussion of Israel. The third, 2,865, accounts employed “false personas” to target social and political conversations about Iran. Twitter removed 4,779 accounts linked to Iran, four accounts associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency, 130 accounts originating from Spain and 33 originating from Venezuela.
Only four accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency , the St. Petersburg-based “troll farm,” were removed in this latest sweep. This is acompared to the thousands first removed in the initial wake criticism aimed at both Twitter and Facebook following Senate reports which revealed the extent of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Spain’s 130 banned accounts are directly associated with the Catalan independence movement, spreading content about the Catalan Referendum, Roth wrote, while Venzuelan’s 33 removed accounts engaged in “platform manipulation targeted outside of the country.”published information“People and organizations with the advantages of institutional power and which consciously abuse our service are not advancing healthy discourse but are actively working to undermine it,” Roth wrote.
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