Twitter said it removed 299,649 accounts for promoting terrorism during the first six months of 2017, bringing its total to 935,897 from Aug. 1, 2015, through this past June 30.
Promotion of terrorism accounted for slightly more than 2 percent of accounts reported to Twitter, as the social network cited an 80 percent plunge in the reporting of such accounts by governments when compared with the second half of 2016, with government requests accounting for less than 1 percent of account suspensions.
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