Security News > 2021 > February > Twitter removes accounts of Russian government-backed actors
Twitter has removed dozens of accounts connected to Russian government-backed actors disseminating disinformation and targeting the European Union, the United States, and the NATO alliance.
These accounts were part of two separate networks with Russian links, each of them specialized in targeting different entities.
"Our first investigation found and removed a network of 69 fake accounts that can be reliably tied to Russian state actors," Twitter said.
"A number of these accounts amplified narratives that were aligned with the Russian government, while another subset of the network focused on undermining faith in the NATO alliance and its stability."
The second Russian-linked disinformation network, comprising almost three dozen accounts, was focused on amplifying narratives striving to specifically undermine other users' faith in the US and the EU. "As part of our second investigation in this region, we removed 31 accounts from two networks that show signs of being affiliated with the Internet Research Agency and Russian government-linked actors," Twitter added.
In all, Twitter said that it removed four networks of accounts the company linked to state-affiliated disinformation operations attributed to Russia, Armenia, and Iran.