This is about a fifth less than in the previous period.
Together with Facebook and Google, Twitter is under pressure
from regulators and governments worldwide to remove extremist content more
rapidly or face more heavy-handed legislation.
Announcing its latest transparency report, the company said
its technical tools were producing results, with 91 percent of accounts
promoting terrorism content proactively suspended by its internal technology.
The majority of which happened before their first tweet
because the data used to set them up raised red flags.
Twitter suspended 166,153 accounts between July and December
2018 for promoting terrorism, a 19 percent drop from the 205,156 accounts
suspended in the previous six months.
“This sharp decrease is indicative of a larger trend we are
now observing — year-on-year the numbers of terrorist organizations attempting
to use our service is reducing,’’ Sinead McSweeney, Twitter’s vice president
for public policy said in a statement.
“This can be attributed to a robust technical approach that
we’ve enhanced over many years. We are encouraged by these metrics but will
remain vigilant,” she said.
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