Twitter suspends 58 million accounts in final months of 2017

Twitter suspended at least 58 million user accounts in the final three months of 2017, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.    The figure highlights the company’s newly aggressive stance against malicious or suspicious accounts in the wake of Russian disinformation efforts during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.    The number of suspended accounts originated with Twitter’s "firehose," a data stream it makes available to academics, compa…
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