Washington (Sputnik) – the 12th annual report of transparency Twitter found that he had been suspended from the social media sites of suspected terrorist content from August 2015 to more than 1.2 million accounts, Twitter said in a press release on Thursday.
“During the reporting period 1 July 2017 to 31 December 2017, for a total of 274,460 account was blocked without the possibility of recovery for violations related to propaganda of terrorism”, – reports. “In the period from 1 August 2015 to 31 December 2017, we have suspended 1,210,357 account from Twitter for violations related to the promotion of terrorism.”
The release added to 74% of accounts were suspended previously, users could post to Twitter.
Less than 0.2% of the accounts were suspended due to government reports of violations in the period from July to December 2017, representing a decrease of 50% compared to previous reporting period reports.
Twitter has a long-term ban on the propaganda of terrorism and extremism.
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