WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Twitter Inc deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday’s U.S. election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats, after the party flagged the misleading tweets to the social media company. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant

“We took action on relevant accounts and activity on Twitter,” a Twitter spokesman said in an email. “We removed a series of accounts for engaging in attempts to share disinformation in an automated fashion — a violation of our policies.”

According to Reuters, the accounts were flagged by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Our singular goal is to enforce our policies vigorously and protect conversational health on our service,” the company spokesperson said in a statement. The suspicious tweets were initially spotted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a group that supports party candidates seeking terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, and subsequently brought them to Twitter’s attention prior to their being removed in late September and early October, the report said. The accounts were taken down in late September and early October, the company said. According to a new report in Reuters, Twitter removed the accounts, which were automatically posting "misleading" messages about voting, in September and October.
Twitter deletes 10,000 bot accounts that were discouraging people from voting in the midterm elections in the United States.