Twitter bans accounts that promoted #IStandWithPutin for ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’
Twitter has banned more than 100 accounts that repeatedly retweeted the #IStandWithPutin hashtag, which trended on the platform earlier this week amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
A spokesperson for Twitter told NBC News on Friday that the company is still investigating the people behind the accounts and that the profiles were banned for participating in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” and violating Twitter’s “platform manipulation and spam policy.”
The Hill has reached out to Twitter for further comment.
The accounts that had retweeted the #IStandWithPutin the most had only a few dozen followers and had stock photos for profile pictures on the platform, indicating they may be inauthentic, according to NBC News.
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