Twitter closes 360 thousand account promoting for terrorism

Twitter closes 360 thousand account promoting for terrorism

Twitter said on Thursday that it closed 360 thousand account associated with "promoting terrorism" since the middle of 2015. The site of short messages in the past had criticism from Washington and others side that the site is not doing enough to stop with extremists linked to accounts in Daesh.

But the site and since February stopped 235 thousand another account after stopping 125 thousand people since mid-2015, mostly linked to al Daesh. Twitter said that the cessation of the daily operations of the accounts linked to terrorism have jumped by 80 percent since last year, and it reduced the time it takes to respond.

And control groups commended the rapid response on Twitter celebrations on Internet-linked militants in daesh commended the truck attack in July in Nice, France, has killed more than 80 people.

Twitter is based mainly on reports from users about abusive accounts and the website it said it had expanded the size of the team that is reviewing these communications.

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prohibit the violent threats and encouraging terrorism. The site was announced in February its willingness to intensify its efforts to implement the rules, stressing that it will not remain silent about the calls on governments to stop the jihadist propaganda on the Internet.

The management of Twitter in a letter published Thursday on the official blog that "the cessation of the daily operations (accounts) are rising by 80 percent compared to last year," adding it is conducting the arrest record of accounts, immediately after the terrorist attacks.

But Twitter management acknowledged that the work "is not over," and underlined that "our efforts continue to achieve important results." She continued that it had amended necessary to arrest accounts that receive complaints around the time period, as well as the period during which those accounts remain subject to an action dramatically reduces the number of observers who can to those accounts.