Twitter Culls 10,000 More State-Sponsored Accounts

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Twitter has removed another 10,000 accounts across six countries after discovering coordinated activity among nation states designed to spread misinformation.
 
The move comes nearly a year after the social network first began efforts at uncovering state-sponsored propaganda efforts using fake accounts. Since then, it has announced new discoveries in January, June and August this year.
 
Chinese efforts to spread misinformation about Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters appears to be showing no signs of slowing down. On top of the network of 200,000 fake accounts disclosed in August, Twitter has added another 4301 which it said were attempting to “sow discord” about the protests.

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