Security News > 2020 > June > Twitter Removes 30,000 State-Linked Manipulation Accounts
Twitter on Friday announced that it took down more than 30,000 accounts pertaining to three networks associated with China, Turkey, and Russia state-linked manipulation activities.
A total of 32,242 accounts were added to the social platform's archive of state-linked information operations, while the accounts themselves, along with all of the content associated with them, have been permanently removed from Twitter.
The accounts pushed "Deceptive narratives about the political dynamics in Hong Kong," in continuation of the activity of a 200,000 accounts network that was shut down in August 2019.
A total of 7,340 accounts targeting domestic audiences within Turkey were added to Twitter's state-linked operations archive, including both fake and compromised accounts.
Associated with the youth wing of the party, the network "Includes several compromised accounts associated with organizations critical of President Erdogan and the Turkish Government." The compromised accounts have been repeatedly targeted by state actors for takeover, Twitter says.