| | | | | View in your browser | | |  | | | | | | Twitter defends removal of fake accounts after Trump criticism | Twitter is defending its policy of removing fake accounts after President Trump attacked the tech company for removing “many people from my account.”
The social media giant said it was seeking to remove fake accounts so that people would know their followers are actually real people, and argued that this was for the better.
“Our focus is on the health of the service, and that includes work to remove fake accounts to prevent malicious behavior," a spokesperson for Twitter said in a statement to The Hill. "Many prominent accounts have seen follower counts drop, but the result is higher confidence that the followers they have are real, engaged people.” | | Read the full story here | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Did a friend forward you this email? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
