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Twitter怒删恐怖分子账号

在恐怖分子的交流上，Twitter无奈躺枪，去年社交网络推特Twitter明确禁止了跟恐怖分子有关的内容，加强了跟恐怖宣传的斗争。但是“恐怖主义”是如何评判，又有什么其他标准？

测试中可能遇到的词汇和知识：

crack down on 镇压；制裁

affiliate 联号；隶属的机构等[ə'fɪlɪeɪt]

algorithm [计]算法，运算法则['ælgərɪð(ə)m]

misogyny 厌恶女人[mɪ'sɒdʒ(ə)nɪ; maɪ-]

think-tank 智囊团

Islamophobia 伊斯兰恐惧症

erupt 爆发；喷出[ɪ'rʌpt]

radicalize 变得激进['rædikəlaiz]

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Twitter cracks down on accounts promoting terrorism（448words）

By Hannah Kuchler in San Francisco

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Twitter has increased dramatically the number of accounts it suspends for promoting terrorism, cracking down on Isis and its affiliates that are using the platform to win over new recruits.

The San Francisco-based messaging platform said daily suspensions had risen 80 per cent in the past year to total of 350,000 since mid-2015, with increases in the number of accounts suspended coming after terrorist attacks from Nice to Orlando. Some 235,000 have been suspended in the six months since February.

Twitter and other social media companies have been under pressure from governments, law enforcement agencies and counter extremism activists who believe they should be doing more to track terrorists’ use of their services and push them off the sites faster.

The company said on Thursday that it had expanded the teams that review reports of terrorism and improved their technological tools and language skills. Twitter insists there is no “magic algorithm” for identifying tweets from terrorists but says that tools, rather than reports from other users, helped identify a third of the accounts shut down in the past six months.

“Our response time for suspending reported accounts, the amount of time these accounts are on Twitter, and the number of followers they accumulate have all decreased dramatically,” a Twitter spokesman said. “We have also made progress in disrupting the ability of those suspended to immediately return to the platform.”

Twitter, the most public of all the social media sites, has long faced criticism about being slow to crack down on hate speech, be it terrorism, threats of violence or misogyny.

The announcement came as think-tank Demos published a report into Islamophobia on Twitter, finding that 7,000 Islamophobic tweets were sent in English on the platform each day in July this year. Demos said Islamophobia erupted on the platform the day after the attacks in Nice.

The UK and the US governments have been among those demanding that social media companies do more to help them in their fight against terrorism. They propose that the companies assist them in creating “counter-extremism narratives” to reach especially young people seen as at risk of joining terrorist groups before they are radicalised.

Twitter said it is working with non-governmental organisations including Parle-moi d’Islam in France, Imams Online in the UK and the Sawab Center in the US to “empower” voices against violent extremism.

Earlier this year, technology companies including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Microsoft signed a European Commission code of conduct on illegal hate speech. They committed to review requests to remove illegal hate speech in less than 24 hours, to work closely with each other and to support education programmes that encourage independent counter-extremism speech and critical thinking about terrorism.

请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：

1. Which organization did not pressurize the social media companies?

A. red cross

B. governments

C. law enforcement agencies

D. counter extremism activists

2. How many Islamophobic tweets were sent in English on the platform each day in July this year?

A. 3500

B. 7000

C. 8500

D. 2350

3. Which technology companies did not sign the code of conduct on illegal hate speech?