Twitter has confirmed that it has suspended nearly 377,000 accounts in the second half of 2016 for encouraging terrorism. This was enclosed in its 2016 annual transparency report announced on March 21, 2017 that publishes data on appeals Twitter has received from the government and other legal bodies to monitor content on its social platform.
Out of 376,890 accounts Twitter suspended for posting terrorism-related content, only two percent were based on the request by government requests to remove data.
Twitter reported that 74% of terrorist accounts were discovered by ‘internal, proprietary spam-fighting tools.’
This marks the first time Twitter reported its determinations in combating violent radicalism in its transparency posts since the company commenced publishing the reports in 2012.
Overall, Twitter has suspended 636,248 accounts for terrorism between August 2015 and December 2016.
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