PHNOM PENH -- Twitter has finally taken action to suspend thousands of fake accounts in Southeast Asia, a problem that has ballooned over the last four months during which Cambodia, Malaysia and Pakistan held national elections.
Twitter suspended those accounts earlier in August, after months of complaints about them spreading fake news that in some cases had led to violence. An analysis by Australia-based programmer Nisal Periyapperuma showed that Twitter suspended roughly 6,000 fake accounts, or automated accounts now commonly referred to as bots, in Cambodia alone.
