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Twitter Suspends Over 3 Lakh Accounts Linked To Extremism

In an attempt to combat digital terrorism, Twitter has suspended 360,000 accounts linked to terror activities since middle of 2015. The company is its official blog postsaid that it has suspended an additional 235,000 accounts for violating company’s policies related to promotion of terrorism in the six months since February 2016. Twitter said that earlier this year, it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 for “violating longtime prohibition on violent threats and the promotion of terrorism and shared a number of steps to combat such content. Since then, the...