THREAD - Last big takeaway from Dorsey's opening remarks:
Twitter recently witnessed activity affiliated with the Russian Internet Research Agency. We continue to identify accounts that we believe may be linked to the Internet Research Agency.
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Twitter recently witnessed activity affiliated with the Russian Internet Research Agency. We continue to identify accounts that we believe may be linked to the Internet Research Agency.
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"3,843 accounts are believed to be linked to IRA. These accounts appear to be located in Iran, Dorsey says. This is indicated by, for example, accounts
related by an Iranian mobile carrier or phone number or Iranian email address on the account."
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related by an Iranian mobile carrier or phone number or Iranian email address on the account."
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"Although Twitter is blocked in Iran, we may see people engage via virtual private network. We suspended 770 accounts for violating Twitter policies. Fewer than 100 of the 770 suspended accounts claimed to be located in the U.S. and many of these were sharing divisive..."
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"...social commentary. On average, these 100 accounts Tweeted 867 times, were followed by 1,268 accounts, and were less than a year old. One advertiser ran $30 in ads in 2017..."
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"Those ads did not target the U.S. and the billing address was located outside of Iran."
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