With the increase in fake news taking the Internet world by storm every now and then, Twitter has taken it very seriously to remove all fake and dubious accounts. On an average twitter has been removing 1 million such accounts every day. Facebook and Google had previously revealed startling data showing how millions of people are exposed to fake news.
Since a few years, Twitter has been facing constant criticism for not taking enough measures to control such fake and bot lead accounts.
Del Harvey, Twitter’s vice president for trust and safety, told the Post that the company is changing “how we think about balancing free expression versus the potential for free expression to chill someone else’s speech.” “Free “Free expression doesn’t really mean much if people don’t if people don’t feel safe,” Harvey told the paper.
With 336 million active users, Twitter is really on a task