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Twitter Suspended Hundreds of Thousands of Accounts Amid 'Violent Extremism' (fortune.com)

Posted by msmash on from the taking-a-stand dept.

Twitter said on Tuesday it had suspended more than half a million accounts since the middle of 2015 as the company steps up efforts to tackle "violent extremism" on its microblogging platform. From a report: The company shut down a total of 376,890 accounts in the last six months of 2016, Twitter said in its latest transparency report.

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  1. Not true by hawguy · · Score: 0, Troll

    I checked twitter and the highest profile extremist account @realDonaldTrump is still there.