The Twitter social network he revealed today three new state interventionsfundamentals that took place on its platform this year.
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.
China
Of the three networks, the largest was that of China. Twitter reportedly closed 23.750 accounts that served as the network's core.
The tweets posted by these accounts were then boosted by a secondary network with more than 150.000 accounts, acting as promoters.
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 said it found and removed 1.152 accounts related to Russia and Current Policy a news website 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 issues aimed at Turkish-speaking users.
"With base our analysis of network technical indicators and account behavior, fake and hacked accounts were used to boost political narratives favorable to AK Parti and showed strong support for President Erdogan,” Twitter said.
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."
