Twitter has claimed to have suspended over 125,000 accounts citing most of them linked to the Islamic State (IS) group as reason.
This development took place as part of the efforts to crack down terrorist activities on the messaging platform. The accounts frozen since mid-2015 were targeted for alleged terrorist activities, said Twitter, which is under pressure from the governments to act.
“Like most people around the world, we are horrified by the atrocities perpetrated by extremist groups. We condemn the use of Twitter to promote terrorism and the Twitter rules make it clear that this type of behavior, or any violent threat, is not permitted on our service,” Twitter said on its policy blog.
Twitter said it already is discouraging terrorist activity on its platform but there is no easy way to filter terror content.
“As many experts and other companies have noted, there is no ‘magic algorithm’ for identifying terrorist content on the internet, so global online platforms are forced to make challenging judgment calls based on very limited information and guidance,” added Twitter.
