Social media giant Twitter stated in a transparency report that it has shut down more than 600,000 terrorism accounts since August 2015, with almost 377,000 shut down between July and December 2016.
According to Twitter’s latest transparency report, the social media giant has taken various steps to combat terrorism on the site, including the shutdown of 636,248 accounts which promoted terror since August 2015.
The report, which details measures taken between the start of July and the end of December last year, states that Twitter shut down nearly 377,000 accounts for promotion of terrorism within this time period. Twitter further states that 74% of these suspended accounts were detected by internal spam-fighting tools.
