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X suspends 800m accounts for manipulation and spam
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X suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 for breaching its rules on platform manipulation and spam.
Why it matters
X defines manipulative accounts as those that engage in "bulk, aggressive, or disruptive activity that misleads others and/or disrupts their experience." Over a 12-month period in 2024, X suspended 800 million accounts for breaching its rules on platform manipulation and spam. X reported approximately 300 million monthly users worldwide. X stated it is fighting state-backed attempts to hijack the agenda and identified Russia, followed by Iran and China, as the most prolific state-backed actors; X did not disclose which suspensions related specifically to foreign interference.
Implications
- • Accounts engaging in bulk, aggressive, or disruptive activity that misleads users or disrupts experience are subject to platform-wide suspension.
- • External parties cannot determine how many suspensions were linked to state-backed interference because X did not disclose a breakdown of foreign-interference-related takedowns.
Who is affected
- • Platform trust and safety teams
- • Content moderation teams
- • Users engaging in bulk/aggressive/disruptive activity
- • State information-operation actors
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