Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan listens as President Trump speaks as they meet in the Oval Office with Republican senators at the White House Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo / Patrick Semansky)

Twitter reveals part of Erdogan's propaganda

The social Twitter he revealed today three new government interventions made on this year's platform.

The social network banned and removed 32.242 accounts that were part of networks operated by China, Russia and Turkey. All three countries promoted political agendas and narratives and were associated with government agencies.

(AP Photo / Patrick Semansky)

China

Of the three networks, hers was the largest . Twitter said it closed 23.750 accounts that functioned as the core of the network.

The posted by these accounts were then amplified by a secondary network of over 150.000 accounts acting as boosters.

The purpose of these tweets was to promote and spread geopolitical narratives that were favorable to the Chinese Communist Party, but also "misleading narratives about political dynamics in Hong Kong."

Russia

The social network also reported that it found and removed 1.152 accounts related to Russia and Current Policy, a news site that promotes political propaganda and is supported by the state.

Just like the China network, this network targeted Russian-speaking users.

Turkey

A third similar network was created by Turkey, and promoted political tweets those aimed at Turkish-speaking users.

"Based on our analysis of the technical indicators of the network and the behavior of the accounts, fake and violated accounts were used to reinforce political narratives in favor of the AK Party and showed strong support for President Erdogan," Twitter reported.

In total, Twitter deleted 7.340 accounts and said it believed those accounts had been operated by AK Party youth.

This network included not only bots but also accounts that had been compromised. Twitter reported that all the breached accounts had been linked to organizations that criticized President Erdogan and the Turkish government. After the violations, of course, the same accounts stood out for their pro-government tweets.

"These breached accounts were repeated targets for hacking and redemption attempts by the government agencies identified above."

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