Twitter Ramps Up Fight Against Fake Profiles Before Midterm Elections
- Social-media site removing misleading political accounts
- Company says it’s challenging 9.4 million accounts per week
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Twitter Inc. is ramping up the fight against fake profiles and spam in an effort to clean up its platform ahead of the U.S. November midterm elections.
The company said it removed about 50 accounts in August that misrepresented themselves on the social-media site as members of various state Republican parties. It’s also taken action on Tweets sharing news about elections and political issues with misleading or incorrect party affiliation information, Twitter said Monday in a blog post.