Twitter removes thousands of unauthentic accounts praising Saudi and critical of Qatar

Twitter has removed thousands of accounts amplifying unauthentic content praising Saudi leadership and critical of Qatar and Turkey.“A network of accounts associated with Saudi Arabia and operating out of multiple countries including KSA, Egypt and UAE, were amplifying content praising Saudi leadership, and critical of Qatar and Turkey. A total of 5,350 accounts were removed,” the social media giant has said in a series of tweets.“We removed 2,541 accounts in an Egypt-based network, known as the El Fagr network. The media group created inauthentic accounts to amplify messaging critical of Iran, Qatar and Turkey. Information we gained externally indicates it was taking direction from the Egyptian government.“The accounts we have identified, investigated and removed, were part of five distinct campaigns associated with five countries: Egypt, Honduras, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and Serbia.“Transparency is fundamental to the work we do at Twitter. Today, we’re updating our archive of state-backed information operations with some recent account networks we’ve removed from our service.”