Twitter purges thousands of ‘state-linked’ accounts

Twitter has announced their latest round of axed accounts, targeting thousands of users accused of promoting government agendas in countries such as China, Russia and Venezuela.Thursday’s ban affects 3,465 accounts, the most so far under the social media company’s push to remove users that spread “state-backed information.”
Twitter said that it “attributed” the accounts that were given the boot to “operations” running for the sake of governments in