Twitter Shuts Down 3,465 Pro-government Propaganda Accounts Including NRM’s

Posted by: Suubi Anne in Uganda news December 3, 2021

Twitter has shut down 3,465 pro-government propaganda accounts in Uganda, Tanzania, Venezuela, China, Russia and Mexico. Part of those shut down belong to NRM.

Twitter shut down 418 “propaganda accounts ”belonging to President Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM).

Apparently, the removed NRM-affiliated accounts were “engaged in coordinated inauthentic activity” which is against the community rules of Twitter.

“We removed a network of 418 accounts engaged in coordinated inauthentic activity in support of Ugandan presidential incumbent Museveni and his party, National Resistance Movement (NRM),” read a statement in part released by Twitter.

Twitter also said they believe they have a responsibility to protect the integrity of the public conversation. They have to make sure they offer meaningful transparency into their findings.

This means coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour also violates Twitter’s manipulation and spam policies. This is part of the reason why they shut down these accounts.

The same thing happened earlier this year in January when Facebook closed NRM-related accounts. NRM was reportedly using duplicate accounts ahead of the presidential elections with an aim of manipulating debate.

The government reacted by closing down Facebook till now. Does this, therefore, mean, we should expect a Twitter shut down in the country as it happened on Facebook?

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