WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The number of suspended accounts totals 636,248 when added to the numbers reported in February and August 2016.
"During the reporting period of July 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016, a total of 376,890 accounts were suspended for violations related to promotion of terrorism," the report stated.
Of the suspended accounts, 74 percent were identified by the company’s internal spam-fighting tools. An additional 2 percent were accounts identified by government requests.
Twitter has a longstanding policy of prohibiting the promotion of terrorism and violent extremism. In August, the company said daily suspensions were up over 80 percent from the previous year.
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