Twitter Cracks Down on Terrorism, Suspends 300K Accounts

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Twitter Inc.  continues to take strong steps to fight terrorism by suspending accounts linked with terrorism on its platform.

According to Twitter’s latest bi-annual transparency report, the micro blogging site has taken down 299,649 accounts related to extremism in the first half of 2017. Moreover, 95% were taken down after being identified by internal spam fighting tools of the company compared with 74% in the last report.

The company also added that the crackdown on extremist activities on its platform has led to 80% reduction in accounts reported by governments compared to the previous reporting cycle (Jul 1, 2016 to Dec 31, 2016). Less than 1% accounts were taken down following government requests.

Twitter stated that nearly 75% of the abovementioned accounts were taken down even before they started tweeting, given the strength of internal fighting tools.

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