In the framework of the fight against terrorism Twitter blocked 300 thousand accounts

The famous social network will not tolerate the criminals and murderers.

Under pressure from the authorities and regulators Twitter strengthens the fight against the spread of extremism online, reports Bloomberg. According to published company data, over the last six months, the microblogging service worldwide, we have blocked around 300 thousand Twitter accounts related to terrorism. Of this number, about 95% were identified using automated tools, said on Twitter. The company also reported an increase in requests for issuance of user data by the authorities: in the period from January to June of 2017 received about 3900.

Automated search for extremist materials – a necessary feature for social networks because manually it would be impossible to check the millions of messages that users send every day. Currently, Twitter has about 328 million subscribers, and U.S. monthly active audience of approximately 68 million.

Twitter said that about 75% of the blocked accounts were closed before sending them any messages. In total from August 2015 Twitter has suspended 935 897 accounts, of which two-thirds had this year.

“Our tools for fighting spam allow us to quickly and effectively block accounts that violate our rules,” – said in a statement Twitter.

Last year, Twitter took on a voluntary commitment in Europe within 24 hours to block the sending of messages of a racist, xenophobic or extremist.

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