Twitter Suspends 235,000 Accounts for Promoting Terrorism

[onehandle]

Source: Gizmodo

Twitter says it has suspended 235,000 accounts for promoting terrorism since February, the company said. Twitter says it has removed 360,000 accounts for promoting terrorism in total.

“Our response time for suspending reported accounts, the amount of time these accounts are on Twitter, and the number of followers they accumulate have all decreased dramatically,” Twitter said in a blog post. “We have also made progress in disrupting the ability of those suspended to immediately return to the platform.”

Twitter has long struggled with removing terrorist content on its platform, receiving criticism from US lawmakers and Twitter users.

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May I suggest suspending the Twitter account of Mr. Donald Trump?

He has been encouraging terrorism for years.

[True Dough]

1. Is one of them Drumpf's???

Ought to be!

[Sunlei]

2. Has twitter started a pay for premium service yet? That's next.

[misterhighwasted]

3. Must be a lot of job openings with Twitter lately!

Hate tweets are out of control.
How many threats against Hillary's life were repeated after Trump literally gave his fans permission?

That in itself it terrorism. Not to mention every ethnic group that isn't lined up with Trump.

If its on Southern Poverty Law's list then it should be labelled "terrorism" also.

[Initech]

4. Can Donald Trump say anything that will get his accound banned at this point?

Maybe that.

[sunnystarr]

5. is that a real tweet? nt

[Initech]

6. No it was created with the Donald Trump fake Tweet generator:

http://faketrumptweet.com/

I am having way too much fun with this thing!

[PatSeg]

7. Pretty hard to top the

crap he tweets though.