Social media largely easily attracts diverse forms of humanity onto its platform for different motives or purpose regardless of your tribe, root, backgrounds et al. However, this also implies negative minded people such as terrorists equally see social media as a means of promoting radical thoughts or recruitment purposes.
This frequent development has prompted Twitter to actively delete such accounts in cases of such. A look at Twitter’s history record shows about 125,000 terrorism-related accounts have been suspended alone so far this year. According to Reuters, Twitter has embarked on a continuous process to completely take down on such devilish accounts, with an addition of 235,000 accounts suspended.
This simply implies a total of 360,000 terrorism-related accounts have been suspended till date by Twitter.
On a daily basis, the company shuts down terrorism-linked accounts which have experienced an increase by 80 percent since 2015.
But faces challenges in their response rate before finally shutting down such accounts due to the need for clarifying of such accounts which they largely rely on user reports to identify these criminal accounts and the use of spam-fighting tools that easily helps to trace and rightly identify such accounts.
Twitter said in a blog post, “Our work is not done,” before adding, “Our efforts continue to drive meaningful results, including a significant shift in this type of activity off of Twitter.”
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