Twitter Details Account Takedowns in China, Russia, Turkey

They were added to its archive of state-linked information operations

Twitter released details on 32,242 accounts that were deleted from its platform and added to its archive of state-linked information operations, saying those accounts were part of three distinct operations based in China, Russia and Turkey.

The social network said in a blog post that all accounts and content associated with those accounts has been permanently removed, and relevant data has been shared with research partners the Australian Strategic Policy institute and Stanford Internet Observatory.

Two interconnected sets of accounts were removed in China: 23,750 that made up the core of the network, and about 150,000 that were designed to boost its content.

Twitter said the core accounts were detected early, before they could achieve traction, and the majority of the amplifier accounts had few or no followers.

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