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Twitter suspended over 1.6 lakh terror-promoting accounts in six months

The site reported a 19 per cent drop in terror-related tweets from last year.

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May 10, 2019, 04.24 PM IST
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Twitter said that in the majority of cases, it took action at the account setup stage - before the account even Tweets.
SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter suspended 166,513 accounts for promoting terrorism in the July-December 2018 period, saying there's a steady decrease in terrorist groups trying to use the platform owing to its "zero-tolerance policy enforcement".

According to Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Policy and Trust and Safety Lead at Twitter, there is a reduction of 19 per cent terror-related tweets from the previous reporting period (January-June 2018).

"Of those suspensions, 91 per cent consisted of accounts flagged by internal, purpose-built technological tools," she said in a blog post late Thursday.


Twitter said that in the majority of cases, it took action at the account setup stage - before the account even Tweets.

"We have received government information requests from 86 countries. The US now comprises only 30 per cent of global government information requests and 35 per cent of all global accounts specified in the same category," informed Gadde.

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The second highest volume of information requests were submitted by Japan (24 per cent of global information requests).

Requests from the UK (13 per cent), India (6 per cent), Germany (6 per cent) and France (5 per cent) together account for 30 percent of all global information requests, and 29 per cent of all global accounts specified.

"We received roughly 8 per cent fewer global legal requests to remove content, impacting approximately 2 per cent fewer accounts, compared to the previous reporting period," said Gadde.

Twitter received legal requests specifying 27,283 accounts from 48 countries, including Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia and Slovenia for the first time.

"Nearly 74 per cent of the total global volume of legal requests to remove content originated from only two countries: Russia and Turkey," said the company.

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