Almost 300,000 terror-related Twitter accounts deleted in half year
According to Twitter, the company is making significant progress in identifying and stopping profiles that spread terrorist propaganda.
Of the almost 300,000 accounts blocked in the first half of 2017, 95 percent were reported as suspicious by Twitter's own software.
The company explained this in its latest transparency report on Tuesday. Three quarters of these profiles were blocked even before they had tweeted for the first time. Since August 2015, around 936,000 terror-related accounts have been blocked on the short message service.
Political pressure on online platforms to take faster and more consistent action against hate speech and terrorist propaganda has grown steadily in recent years. For example, the Network Enforcement Act will soon come into force in Germany, according to which criminal content must be removed within seven days at the latest, even in ambiguous cases.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently said that the company wanted to meet the requirements with a combination of algorithms and human control. (SDA)
