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Twitter Suspends 70 Bloomberg-Boosting Accounts For ‘Platform Manipulation’

Joseph Curl
Twitter Suspends 70 Bloomberg-Boosting Accounts For ‘Platform Manipulation’
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Twitter is suspending 70 accounts that support Michael Bloomberg’s campaign, finding that they have posted identical messages in an effort to commit “platform manipulation.”

“We have taken enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam,” a Twitter spokesman told the Los Angeles Times. Some of the suspensions will be permanent, but account owners will also have the chance to verify their control.

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