Twitter announced that he has removed over 50 thousand contents from the social network as part of the commitment to contracking fake news about the war in Ukraine. The removal of content will continue over the next few days. Content that supported fake Twitter fundraisers was also blocked. Here are the details:
Twitter’s battle against fake news continues: a lot of content related to the war in Ukraine has been eliminated
Overall, Twitter confirmed that it had removed 75,000 accounts for “inauthentic behavior” and spam. In the campaign against fake news related to the war in Ukraine, Twitter recorded the spread of hashtags linked to propaganda activities. Several footage of old war conflicts passed off as new. Also note the block of fake fundraisers to support refugees. The monitoring activity will continue over the next few weeks. Twitter has readmitted the profiles of Russian broadcasters RT and Sputnik. The two accounts are now referred to as “state-run media”. The reach of the tweets of the two accounts decreased by about 30% after this new indication.
Zelensky’s deepfake also blocked
Twitter also blocked a deepfake video of the Ukrainian president of Zelensky. The video in question, before being detected by the control systems, had gone viral, reaching over 100,000 views in a few hours. The same video was also identified and removed from Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.