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An Inside Look At The Accounts Twitter Has Censored In Countries Around The World

Silverman, Craig; Singer-Vine, Jeremy
http://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/country-withheld-twitter-accounts

Publisher:  Buzzfeed
Date Written:  24/01/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

BuzzFeed News has identified more than 1,700 Twitter accounts that have been blocked in at least one country. The list provides an unprecedented glimpse into Twitter's collaboration with national groups and governments -- democratic and authoritarian alike -- and provides new details about a surge in blocked accounts in Germany, France, and Turkey.

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In order to gain insight into the withholding program, BuzzFeed News built a data set of more than 1,700 Twitter accounts observed to have been withheld in at least one of seven countries -- Germany, France, Turkey, Russia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and India -- between October 2017 and early January 2018. Because Twitter publishes no official list of such accounts, and because many historically withheld accounts have since disappeared from the platform, the data set is incomplete. It does, however, appear to be the the most detailed and globally diverse list of withheld accounts ever published. (For an explanation of how the data was collected, see the “How we got the data” section at the end of this article.)

BuzzFeed News' data and analysis offer an unprecedented glimpse into Twitter's collaboration with national groups and governments -- democratic and authoritarian alike -- and provide a stark reminder of Twitter's ability to shape political conversations, and of governments' attempts to influence that process. It also illustrates that the Twitter experience for users is not the same from one country to the next, and that a range of accounts ranging from malicious to harmless be blocked, especially when it comes to reading opposition voices in Turkey or viewing Nazi and white supremacist content in France and Germany.
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