Tehran 0
23 February 2021

Twitter announced that “based on information provided to us by the FBI, we removed [in September 2020] approximately 130 accounts originating in Iran that were attempting to disrupt the public conversation during the first 2020 U.S. Presidential Debate… after the final investigation was complete, we have suspended a total of 238 accounts operating from Iran for various violations of our platform manipulation policies”. “The accounts had low engagement and did not make an impact on the public conversation”, the statement added. 

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