Twitter’s head office in San Francisco.
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Twitter stated Thursday it got rid of 4,779 accounts connected to the Iranian federal government and will include more information from account takedowns to a public database. That consists of material from 4 phony accounts that Twitter got rid of that were connected to a Russian giant farm called the Internet Research Agency together with the takedowns of 130 accounts connected to Spain and Venezuela.
The business launched the database in October 2018, and it consists of more than 30 million tweets and 1 terabyte of media.
“By making this data open and accessible, we seek to empower researchers, journalists, governments, and members of the public to deepen their understanding of critical issues impacting the integrity of public conversation online, particularly around elections,” Twitter’s Head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth stated in a blog post.
Roth does not state in the post how the business figured out that the countless accounts were connected to the Iranian federal government. CNET connected to the Iranian federal government in an email however didn’t get an action.
