{"id":48196,"date":"2022-08-25T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/twitter-meta-kill-hundreds-of-pro-western-troll-accounts\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:00:15","slug":"twitter-meta-kill-hundreds-of-pro-western-troll-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/twitter-meta-kill-hundreds-of-pro-western-troll-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter, Meta kill hundreds of pro-Western troll accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well known for an abundance of anti-western troll accounts and propaganda, Twitter and Meta are reporting that they’ve taken down nearly 200 accounts that, for the past five years, have been amplifying pro-Western messages in the Middle East and Central Asia.<\/p>\n

Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) and Graphika, a social media analytics company, have published a report<\/a> based on data from Meta and Twitter, in which they describe their findings as “the most extensive case of covert pro-Western [influence operations] on social media to be reviewed and analyzed by open-source researchers to date.”<\/p>\n

Lest you think it’s just Russian<\/a> trolls<\/a> trying to destabilize the West, the researchers found “an interconnected web of accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and five other social media platforms that used deceptive tactics to promote pro-Western narratives.” <\/p>\n