# Exclusive: Twitter is suspending millions of bots and fake accounts every day to fight disinformation - The Washington Post

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/07/06/twitter-is-sweeping-out-fake-accounts-like-never-before-putting-user-growth-risk/?noredirect=on>

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## What Jamie wrote

Hundreds of millions of Facebook accounts deleted. Now, "Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July". What a mess.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT62: Weekly Thing #62 / Jul 14, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/62/), Notable Links 📌

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