O Twitter It announced on Tuesday (21), which since 2015, already eliminated more than 636 thousand accounts of the social network to fight extremism, 376.890 thousand of them only in the last six months of 2016.
Twitter also stated that, since 2010, it has participated in an alliance with the American research organization Lumen, which acts as an independent third party, and that it will receive a copy of the account deletion requests, so that “each party can see what type content has been withdrawn and who requested it.
The data was disclosed in a Twitter transparency report. The 376.890 thousand accounts that were suspended on 2016 had committed violations related to the promotion of terrorism.
Twitter said, however, that it reserves the right not to provide Lumen with certain information, such as telephone numbers, for reasons of confidentiality and respect for privacy. Requests for information from government officials increased 7% compared to the previous period, but referred the least 13% accounts, detailed. Account deletion requests have increased by 13%, but by a volume of less 37% of accounts.
According to the company, 74% of violations were detected through internal tools that try to avoid spam on the network. And less than 2% of the suspensions occurred in response to requests from governments.
In one part of the report, Twitter said it received from worldwide authorities 88 tweets disposal of petitions journalists bills and recognized means. However, the company pointed out that it did not take action in most cases, with some exceptions Germany and Turkey, countries where 88% of these requests came from.
