Twitter’s efforts to suspend fake accounts have doubled since last year

Twitter’s efforts to suspend fake accounts have doubled since last year

6 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/06/twitter-bots-numbers-disinformation-washington-post/

Bots, your days of tweeting politically divisive nonsense might be numbered. The Washington Post reported Friday that in the last few months the company has aggressively suspended accounts in an effort to stem the spread of disinformation running rampant on its platform.

The Washington Post reports that Twitter suspended as many as 70 million accounts between May and June of this year, with no signs of slowing down in July. According to data obtained by the Post, the platform suspended 13 million accounts during a weeklong spike of bot banning activity in mid-May.