Twitter Has Suspended Another 45 Suspected Propaganda Accounts After They Were Flagged By BuzzFeed..
Source: BuzzFeed News
Twitter Has Suspended Another 45 Suspected Propaganda Accounts After They Were Flagged By BuzzFeed News
The social media giant is facing serious questions over its efforts to deal with fake propaganda accounts after BuzzFeed News uncovered a network directly connected to the Russia-linked accounts Twitter submitted to Congress.
Posted on November 24, 2017, at 4:45 a.m.
Tom Phillips
BuzzFeed Staff
James Ball
BuzzFeed Special Correspondent
BuzzFeed News has uncovered a new network of suspected Twitter propaganda accounts – sharing messages about Brexit, Donald Trump, and Angela Merkel – that have close connections to the Russian-linked bot accounts identified by the social media platform in its evidence to the US Congress.
The 45 suspect accounts were uncovered through basic analysis of those that interacted or retweeted accounts cited by Twitter to Congress, yet none of them appeared on the company's list.
The relative ease of discovery raises serious questions as to just how many Russian-linked bots may still be active on Twitter, how the company identifies and removes such accounts, and whether its process for identifying accounts for its evidence was inadequate.
Until BuzzFeed News approached Twitter on Tuesday afternoon with details of the accounts, they all remained active on the platform, though dormant. But within 24 hours, all 45 had been suspended.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/we-found-45-suspected-bot-accounts-sharing-pro-trump-pro?utm_term=.trDOzzwQv#.gkRaAAgvr
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You know, they don't get everything right but they get a lot correctly. Usually Buzzfeed is one of the first outlets to publish a story, but they do try to check things out first, as best they can.
