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California: Twitter on Thursday closed nearly 3,500 accounts in six countries for posting government propaganda. Most of them are from China. Twitter issued a statement saying that we have removed a network of accounts that promote Chinese Communist Party narratives related to the treatment of the Uighur population in Xinjiang. Twitter further said that today we are releasing a representative sample of 2048 accounts.
Twitter further said that we also removed a network of 112 accounts linked to ‘Changyu Culture’, a private company backed by the Xinjiang regional government. The social media company said that for the first time three years ago,
Twitter said it first published a public archive of data related to state-backed information operations three years ago. Since the disclosure in October 2018, Twitter has shared 37 datasets of responsible platform manipulation campaigns starting in 17 countries, including more than 200 million tweets and nine terabytes of media content.
“Today, we are introducing an additional 3,465 accounts to our archive of state-related information operations,” the company statement said. Which is the only one of its kind in the industry. The account set includes eight different Twitter operations, which will take place for six countries- Mexico, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Russia, Tanzania, Uganda and Venezuela.
