The company has suspended a total of 360,000 terrorism-related accounts since last year. We strongly condemn these acts and remain committed to eliminating the promotion of violence or terrorism on our platform. Since mid-2015, Twitter has suspended 360,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS. A first batch of 125,000 suspended accounts was announced in February 2016, and an additional 235,000 have been suspended since then, announced yesterday. Twitter Public Policy Twitter has expanded its ability, teams, and tools to combat violent extremism on the platform, including sharing information and best practices for identifying terrorist content with other social media companies. Daily suspensions are up over 80 percent since last year, with spikes in suspensions immediately following terrorist attacks. Our response time for suspending reported accounts, the amount of time these accounts are on Twitter, and the number of followers they accumulate have all decreased dramatically. has also expanded its partnerships with both governments and organizations that work to counter violent extremism (CVE) online. This past year, Twitter has participated in many CVE meetings, including the latest Washington summit of the in July, and have worked with groups like in the UK and the Sawab Center in the UAE to empower credible non-governmental voices against violent extremism. Twitter Public Policy Global Coalition To Counter ISIS Imams Online ISIS and other related terrorist groups have targeted Twitter’s founder at least twice in the past year and, back in February, both Dorsey and Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg were threatened by a group that calls itself the , as by CNN’s . Jack Dorsey Sons Caliphate Army reported Hope King Via http://tamucc.libguides.com/deepweb Despite the fact that only a small percentage of terror-related activity happens on the — much of it runs in the so-called — the global efforts to counter violent extremism online are having an important role in cracking the narrative and the reach of terrorist groups on social media platforms, thanks also to the efforts by technology companies like Twitter and Facebook. open web dark web We have to pursue efforts, underway across the globe, to counter Daesh’s messaging and to emphasize that Daesh’s many crimes have absolutely no basis whatsoever, no justification in religion, logic, history, or law. Now, these initiatives that we have undertaken to date are having an impact.  — , US Secretary of State John Kerry A recent study by the ’s Global Engagement Center that anti-ISIS content on the Internet now far exceeds pro-ISIS content as Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel highlighted in June. U.S. Department of State indicates On Twitter only, ISIS-related traffic has decreased by 45% in the past two years, the Sawab Center said in a July 2016 tweet.

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