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Twitter shuts down over 600k terrorist accounts!
It appears Twitter are fighting against terrorism 140 characters at a time!
The social media network released a report recently, where they state that in the last six months of 2016, they have suspended 376,890 accounts which promoted terrorism. The report adds approximately three quarters of those suspensions were caught by the company’s own tools.
On top of this, since August 1st 2015, the social network has suspended a total of 636,248 accounts.
Twitter has been a subject of criticism as the network has been a source for extremists and terrorist organization to promote nationalism, separatism and racism. Due to this, the company has made a conservative effort to fight against this, by working with groups like People Against Violent Extremism and the Lumen project, to rid terrorism from the platform.
Twitter specifically state in their rules that “You may not make threats of violence or promote violence, including threatening or promoting terrorism.”
It appears that Twitter is indeed holding up to their world, and we only hope this progress continues to grow.
