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Twitter 300,000 accounts over ‘promotion of terrorism’

CALIFORNIA: Micro-blogging site Twitter has said that it has removed approximately 300,000 accounts being used for the “promotion of terrorism”.

“299,649 accounts promoting terrorism were removed in the first half of this year,” the company said.

“Less than 1 per cent of account suspensions were due to government requests,” Twitter said and added that the previous 95 per cent were thanks to the company’s internal efforts to combat radical content with “proprietary tools”.

Twitter defines “promotion of terrorism” as actively inciting or promoting violence “associated with internationally recognized terrorist organizations.”

The company further added that it had removed 935,897 accounts for the promotion of terrorism between August 1, 2015, and June 30 this year.

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.