Twitter has closed 360,000 accounts since 2015 for promoting terrorism

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Twitter has closed 360,000 accounts since 2015 for promoting terrorism




The company admits that there is no "magic algorithm" to identify the contents, but says it has managed to reduce the time that these types of accounts remain active.



  Twitter social network has announced the suspension of 235,000 accounts during the last six months to promote terrorism. In addition, last year already closed 125,000 profiles for the same reason. "This makes our total number of suspensions to 360,000 since mid-2015," the US company said in a statement.

"The world has witnessed a new wave of deadly repugnant terrorist attacks around the world, we strongly condemn these acts and are committed to eliminating the promotion of violence or terrorism on our platform," the popular social network explained. of messages of 140 characters.

The company admits that there is no "magic algorithm" to identify the content that promotes and promotes terrorism in the network, but says it has managed to reduce the time that this type of accounts remain active, "with peaks of suspensions immediately after the terrorist attacks ", thanks to the" expansion of the teams "that review the suspicious or denounced profiles.

"In fact, in the last six months these tools have helped us automatically identify more than a third of the accounts that have ultimately been suspended for promoting terrorism," they say from the company in San Francisco (United States).

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