{"id":138678,"date":"2020-04-03T01:06:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T23:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/03\/twitter-deletes-20000-fake-accounts-linked-to-saudi-serbian-and-egyptian-governments\/"},"modified":"2020-04-03T01:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T23:06:37","slug":"twitter-deletes-20000-fake-accounts-linked-to-saudi-serbian-and-egyptian-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138678","title":{"rendered":"Twitter deletes 20,000 fake accounts linked to Saudi, Serbian and Egyptian governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accounts also linked to Honduras and Indonesia violated policy and were \u2018targeted attempt to undermine the public conversation\u2019Twitter has deleted 20,000 fake accounts linked to the governments of Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Honduras and Indonesia, saying they violated company policy and were a \u201ctargeted attempt to undermine the public conversation\u201d.Yoel Roth, the head of site integrity, said the removal of the accounts was part of the company\u2019s ongoing \u201cwork to detect and investigate state-backed information operations\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2020\/apr\/02\/twitter-accounts-deleted-linked-saudi-arabia-serbia-egypt-governments\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter deletes 20,000 fake accounts linked to Saudi, Serbian and Egyptian governments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accounts also linked to Honduras and Indonesia violated policy and were \u2018targeted attempt to undermine the public conversation\u2019Twitter has deleted 20,000 fake accounts linked to the governments of Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Honduras and Indonesia, saying they violated company policy and were a \u201ctargeted attempt to undermine the public conversation\u201d.Yoel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}