Microblogging site, Twitter in it’s latest transparency report has revealed that it had suspended nearly a million Twitter accounts for promoting terrorism in less than two years., new figures reveal.
The statistics however revealed a fall in the number of suspensions in the first half of this year.
Twitter had cut off 935,897 accounts for violating its rules on the promotion of terrorism from the start of August 2015 to the end of June this year.
From January to June 299,649 accounts were suspended over terror-related violations – a 20% decrease compared with the previous six months.
Twitter highlighted how its own efforts now account for the bulk of activity to stamp out extremist content.
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