Twitter's crackdown on terrorism appears to be working

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Twitter has been successfully weeding out terrorism from its network.

The company revealed Tuesday it removed 299,649 accounts over the first six months of 2017. That may sound like a lot, but it's a 20 percent decline from the previous six months. Twitter also reported 75 percent of the accounts removed were suspended before they posted their first tweet.  

The decline in account suspensions doesn't mean Twitter is doing less work. Rather, the company has created tools and taken steps that have apparently improved its work on curbing terrorism, according to Twitter's transparency report.  Read more...

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