Twitter says it removed fake accounts from Bangladesh, others

Saleem Samad of DOT
Popular micro-blogging site Twitter said it has removed thousands of fake accounts from Bangladesh, Iran, Russia and Venezuela.
However, it could not be ascertained in a global Twitter’s media statement, how many fake accounts in Bangladesh have been removed.
Last December, Twitter announced that it had suspended 15 accounts “originating from Bangladesh for engaging in coordinated platform manipulation.”
The security wing, Twitter Safety, had tweeted that based on their initial analysis, ‘it appears that some of these accounts may have ties to state-sponsored actors’.
The company on Thursday said more than 1,000 accounts located in Venezuela were engaged in a “state-backed influence campaign” targeting Venezuelans, the social media company wrote in a post on its website.
Twitter “identified and suspended 2,617 additional malicious accounts” in Iran.
By last September, Twitter had taken down 3,843 accounts it linked to the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA).
Twitter admin said it deleted an additional 418 Russian accounts that seemed similar to the ones previously traced to the IRA.
Earlier, the Facebook authorities last December removed nine Facebook Pages and six Facebook accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behavior” on the social media platform in Bangladesh.
According to a post on the social media platform’s “newsroom,” the pages and accounts mimicked independent news outlets and posted pro-government as well as anti-opposition content.