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Twitter Removes 10,000 Accounts That Discouraged Voting

03/11/2018 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Twitter Removes 10,000 Accounts That Discouraged Voting

Twitter deletes 10,000 accounts that were discouraging people from voting

Twitter deletes 10,000 accounts that were discouraging people from voting.

Twitter has deleted an estimated 10,000 automated accounts that were posting messages discouraging people from taking part in next week's US mid-term elections; also, a significant intervention by the United States in the ongoing war in Yemen; and should young children at primary school be given homework? Julian Worricker discusses all this and more with Claire Bolderson, British journalist and broadcaster, and Simon Watt, biologist, writer and science broadcaster and comedian.

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