Twitter deletes over 10k accounts that discouraged US voting

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Wrongly appeared to be from Democrats.

Twitter deletes over 10k accounts that discouraged US voting
Twitter Inc deleted more than 10,000 automated accounts posting messages that discouraged people from voting in Tuesday's US election and wrongly appeared to be from Democrats, after the party flagged the misleading tweets to the social media company. "We took action on relevant accounts and ...

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