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After the Democratic party found misleading tweets that appeared to make it seem they were trying to convince people to vote in the upcoming election, a Twitter spokesman said that the company has taken "action."
The spokesman said: "We took action on the accounts and activity on Twitter."
It seems that the removals had taken place near the end of September and the beginning of October.
A source close to the Democrats told Reuters that Twitter had subsequently removed over 10,000 accounts.
This is a much smaller number than previous purges by Twitter who had removed millions of accounts that it has determined to part in spreading false information during the 2016 presidential election.
Despite the lower numbers in removal, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is hailing this as a victory.
The DCCC had created a campaign and was in the process of becoming a candidate for the first time. .
The Democrats are hoping that by flagging accounts they are spreading misinformation, that they will see more progress in social media's reaction speed.
One of the recent tweets that were plagued by the Democrats were messages to men.
It told them they should not vote because they would drown out the voices of women voters.
They were able to find these messages to the party creating their own system.
This system is part of the "Hoaxley" and "Bolometer" that were developed by computer researchers at the University of Indiana.
They allow users to identify automated accounts and further badyze how they are spreading information about a specific topic.
University of Indiana Filippo Menacer said: "We made the Hoax and Botometer free for anyone to use because we know what we are doing and what's not."
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) also works with a group of contractors and other partners that make it easier.
One of these partners includes RoBhat Labs who develops technology that can identify and bots the political-bias is in the message.
According to DNC Chief Technology Officer Raffi Krikorian, the partnership with RoBhat has helped lead to the discovery of many malicious social media accounts that are reported to the companies.
He did not say if these flagged posts were subsequently removed by Twitter.
Co-founder of RoBhat Labs Ash Bhat said: "We provide the DNC with reports about what we're seeing in terms of where it's being amplified.
"We can not tell you who 's behind these different operations, Twitter, but with the technology, you know when and how it' s happening.
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