Twitter Banned Accounts: Platform Suspends More Than 636,000 Extremist Users

Twitter’s latest transparency report shows it has been cracking down on extremists. The platform said Tuesday it has suspended more than 636,000 accounts between Aug. 1, 2015 and Dec. 31, 2016.

In the last six months of 2016, Twitter suspended nearly 377,000 accounts for “violations related to promotion of terrorism,” the company said.

“Of those suspensions, 74% consisted of accounts surfaced by internal, proprietary spam-fighting tools,” Twitter added.