Twitter Suspends 125,000 ISIS Related Accounts
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Twitter is stepping up its efforts to stop terrorist tweets.
In a new blog post, Twitter has detailed a push towards fighting accounts aligned with violent extremist groups like ISIS.
The company says it has increased the amount of people who manage reports and employed automated spam-fighting tools to locate offending accounts more efficiently.
The social network claims those tactics have resulted in more than 125,000 accounts suspended for threatening or promoting terrors acts since the middle of 2015.
The move comes as the company is facing pressure from Washington for the perceived presence of ISIS-friendly Twitter accounts.
The network is currently facing a lawsuit from the widow of an American killed in an attack in Jordan who says the social media service makes it too easy for the Islamic State to spread its message.