Twitter moves to limit Russian government accounts

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Twitter moves to limit Russian government accounts
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The platform has taken action to limit more than 300 Kremlin accounts, including President Putin's.

found further misinformation spread by official Russian government accounts, as well as evidence of coordinated activity - using multiple government accounts to drive a particular narrative - which is against Twitter's rules.have also been debunked.

"When a government that's engaged in armed conflict is blocking or limiting access to online services within their country, while they themselves continue to use those same services to advance their positions and viewpoints - that creates a harmful information imbalance", says Yoel Roth, Head of Site Integrity at Twitter.

He added that Twitter will take action on media depicting prisoners of war which have been posted by government or state-affiliated media accounts.

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