Ahead of the election season, Twitter banned nearly 5,000 accounts associated with foreign governments. The social media networking platform 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.
“We believe Twitter has a responsibility to protect the integrity of the public conversation — including through the timely disclosure of information about attempts to manipulate Twitter to influence elections and other civic conversations by foreign or domestic state-backed entities,” Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity, wrote in a company blog post. Read More
Submitted June 21, 2019 at 04:31PM by emma-ava http://bit.ly/2WXv0aq via TikTokTikk
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