Twitter blocks tens of thousands of propaganda accounts

[Georg]

Twitter claims to have blocked more than 88,000 user accounts. According to analyzes, these have tried to determine discussions in the sense of Saudi Arabia.

The short message service Twitter claims to have blocked more than 88,000 accounts with connections to Saudi Arabia. Internal analyzes had shown that the accounts were aimed at discussions related to Saudi Arabia, the US company said.

The accounts are said to have amplified messages that would have expressed themselves positively towards Saudi authorities, among other things through aggressive "liking" or "retweeting". It was a significant state-backed information operation that came from Saudi Arabia.
Data from over 5,000 blocked accounts published

The company released data on 5,929 of these accounts on Friday that violated platform guidelines. The data of the other accounts would not be published, among other things, for data protection reasons. A marketing company from Saudi Arabia is said to be behind the network of accounts. The company account was also permanently blocked.

In early November, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that two former Twitter employees were said to have been spying on government critics' private account information for Saudi Arabia.
Sources used:

Dpa news agency

https://www.t-online.de/digital/int...-sperrt-zehntausende-propaganda-accounts.html

 

[Foxtrot Delta]

i bet most of them were from india.

 

[Dinky]

Twitter Removes Almost 90K Accounts That Spread Saudi Propaganda

Twitter removed almost 90,000 accounts linked to the Saudi Arabian government that were found to be part of a propaganda campaign, the company announced on Friday. According to Bloomberg, the accounts were “amplifying messages favorable to Saudi authorities” by engaging in tweets about politics—specifically about Iranian sanctions and the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Researchers from the Stanford Internet Observatory traced the origin of the tweets to Smaat, a Saudi-based social media company that is controlled by the Saudi royal family. The accounts of the company and the company's senior executives have also been suspended, Twitter said. This comes after two ex-Twitter employees and a Saudi national were charged by the U.S. for helping the Saudi government spy on dissidents on the social media platform. One of the individuals charged was an executive with Smaat who worked on behalf of the royal family.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitt...that-spread-saudi-propaganda?via=twitter_page

Twitter just suspended over 88,000 accounts tied to a Saudi disinformation campaign
https://www.businessinsider.de/inte...ia-disinformation-campaign-2019-12/?r=US&IR=T

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208152689659404288

 

[FedererExpress]

They should remove all accounts that spread Chinese propaganda. No Chinese public official should be allowed to use any Western social media they have banned in China. If normal Chinese people aren’t allowed, why should public officials be allowed?

 

[GiannKall]

In the meantime twitter lets zionists spread whatever they want

 

[Pakistan Space Agency]

They should remove all accounts that spread Chinese propaganda. No Chinese public official should be allowed to use any Western social media they have banned in China. If normal Chinese people aren’t allowed, why should public officials be allowed?

You sound like an anti-China propagandist trying to influence Pakistani opinion on China to create a wedge between the two super friendly nations.

Can you prove you are not an anti-China propagandist?

 

[Azadkashmir]

paid by oil

 

[Attila the Hun]

Saudi Arabs created ISIS.

Why did it take this long to block Saudi Arabian Jihadist ISIS propaganda??

 

[Georg]

this topic already exist..

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/twitter-blocks-tens-of-thousands-of-propaganda-accounts.646731/

 

[hirobo2]

Zionists can propagandize all they want. So long as nobody pays attention, those Jews will have zero power. I live in the West n have never used Twitter, last movie I seen in theater was Avatar in 2009. So much for "them" wanting to brainwash ppl...