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More than 70 million. This is the number of accounts suspected of spreading false information suspended by Twitter as part of its fight against malicious activity.
According to the Washington Post which cites data confirmed by Twitter, the average suspension rate is over one million per day and peaked in mid-May. At that time, over 13 million suspicious accounts were suspended in a single week. The trend remains the same in July, according to the daily.
"laxity" in the face of the proliferation of false information
The main social networks, Facebook and Twitter in the lead, have put in place stricter rules for advertisements politicians, after sharp criticism of their "laxity" against the proliferation of false information during the 2016 US election campaign. In many cases, messages were posted by "bots" (automatic accounts) or accounts based in Russia
In May, Twitter announced the coming into force of new rules for political advertisers, who must provide authenticated documents proving that they are in the United States. While parliamentary elections will be held in November, candidates will have to be clearly identified as such on their behalf.
Russians accused of participating in "an info war against the United States
In February, US justice indicted 13 Russian nationals accused of participating in "an information war against the United States" on social media, exacerbating racial and political tensions during the election campaign to favor Republican candidate Donald Trump and denigrate his Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton. The special prosecutor
Robert Mueller has been investigating for more than a year whether Donald Trump's campaign team has voluntarily partnered with Russian officials to favor the election of the billionaire, which the president denies.
Twitter is getting rid of fake accounts at a record pace. Will that include the Failing New York Times and the propaganda machine for Amazon, the Washington Post, who constantly quote anonymous sources that, in my opinion, do not exist – 1945 – Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 7, 2018
"Twitter gets rid of fake accounts at a record speed," wrote Saturday the US president on the social network he uses daily, wondering if those of New York Times and Washington Post two newspapers that he vilifies regularly for their coverage of his policy, were part of the lot.
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