Twitter Just Suspended More Than 600,000 Accounts for ‘Promotion of Terrorism’

Twitter received a total of 6,062 government requests for information in the second half of 2016, covering 11,417 accounts

It may be a drop in the bucket, but every drop is significant: Twitter revealed in its Twitter Transparency Report for the second half of 2016 that it suspended 636,248 accounts from Aug. 1, 2015, through Dec. 31, 2016, for “violations related to promotion of terrorism.”

The social network said in the section on government terms of service reports:

During the reporting period of July 1, 2016, through Dec. 31, 2016, a total of 376,890 accounts were suspended for violations related to promotion of terrorism.

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