{"id":132210,"date":"2019-09-20T20:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T20:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/twitter-removes-state-backed-accounts-from-saudi-arabia-china-spain\/"},"modified":"2019-09-20T20:40:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T20:40:32","slug":"twitter-removes-state-backed-accounts-from-saudi-arabia-china-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/twitter-removes-state-backed-accounts-from-saudi-arabia-china-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter removes state-backed accounts from Saudi Arabia, China, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has removed state-backed accounts from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, China and Spain, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2019\/info-ops-disclosure-data-september-2019.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTransparency and openness are deep-seated values at the heart of Twitter which define and guide our methodology around these disclosures. Today, we are disclosing six additional datasets covering five separate jurisdictions,\u201d the social media platform said.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, Google and Facebook have been under intense scrutiny since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, after it became clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/jan\/19\/twitter-admits-far-more-russian-bots-posted-on-election-than-it-had-disclosed\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian-backed pages and accounts<\/a> used the platforms to influence American voters. In October 2018, Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2018\/enabling-further-research-of-information-operations-on-twitter.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">started an archive database<\/a> of state-backed information operations.<\/p>\n<p>In its blog post today, Twitter said it deleted 259 accounts operated by Spains Popular Party, which \u201cfalsely boost[ed] public sentiment online\u201d in the country. \u201cThese accounts were active for a relatively short period, and consisted primarily of fake accounts engaging in spamming or retweet behavior to incr<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/twitter-removes-state-backed-accounts-from-saudi-arabia-china-spain\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has removed state-backed accounts from the United Ar..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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