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After the Democratic Party found misleading tweets suggesting that they were trying to convince people not to vote in the upcoming elections, a Twitter spokesman said the company had taken "steps" .
The spokesman said: "We acted on relevant accounts and activity on Twitter."
It appears that the moves took place in late September and early October.
A source close to the Democrats told Reuters that Twitter had subsequently deleted more than 10,000 accounts.
This is a significantly lower number than previous Twitter purges, which had suppressed millions of accounts that she said had been involved in spreading false information during the 2016 presidential election. .
Despite the reduced number of eliminations, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) salutes this victory.
The DCCC launched a campaign this year to ensure that Twitter and other social media platforms report their lack of response to negative and false news posted on their sites about their former presidential candidate Hilary Clinton and other candidates of 2016.
Democrats hope that by reporting accounts that spread false information, they will see more progress in the speed of reaction of social media.
One of the recent tweets that have been touched by Democrats was messages to men.
He told them that they should not vote because they would be voicing the voice of the voters.
They could find these messages because the party created their own system that identifies and reports malicious automated accounts.
This system is part of public tools, called "Hoaxley" and "Bolometer", developed by computer scientists from the University of Indiana.
They allow users to identify automated accounts and analyze in more detail how they disseminate information on a specific topic.
Filippo Menacer, a professor of computer science and computer science at Indiana University, said, "We have made Hoaxley and Botometer free because they deserve to know what is a bot and what is not.
The National Democratic Committee (DNC) also works with a group of contractors and other partners who are all trying to identify misinformation campaigns as quickly as possible.
RoBhat Labs is one of these partners, which is developing a technology to identify robots and define the political bias in the message.
According to Raffi Krikorian, DNC's Technical Director, the partnership with RoBhat uncovered numerous malicious social media accounts that were later reported to companies.
He did not say whether these marked posts were subsequently deleted by Twitter.
Ash Bhat, co-founder of RoBhat Labs, said, "We provide the DNC with reports on what we see in terms of bot activity and business amplification.
"We can not tell you who is behind these different operations, Twitter is hiding it, but with technology, you know when and how it happens."
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