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    Twitter Removes Thousands Of Accounts For Manipulating Their Platform

    Many accounts Twitter has suspended or removed have been added to a growing archive of tweets identified as part of "state-backed information operations."
    by Peter Talbot Sep 20, 2019 1 minute
    In 2018, Twitter released an archive of thousands of accounts that the platform determined were involved in potentially state-backed information campaigns. Since then, it has continued to make announcements of its efforts to remove accounts spreading disinformation.

    Twitter permanently suspended thousands of accounts in its ongoing effort to fight the spread of disinformation and political discord on its platform, the company announced Friday. The accounts originated from six different countries. And they included the Twitter account used

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