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Twitter Refused 70 Million accounts in May and June. Twitter has removed more than one million accounts a day in recent months. In May and June, it involved 70 million accounts.   Since October last year, the number of suspended accounts has more than doubled, Twitter confirms to The Washington Post. Twitter has started to take action against people who abuse the platform. It includes the number of fake news and misleading information. In March, changes in the algorithm were declared, through this bad behaviour can be recognised. Twitter published a message in June, in which the company explains how spam and abuse are handled. It states that the weekly 10 million accounts were examined for authenticity. Users had to confirm their report via a telephone number or e-mail address....

Facebook has taken over the British start-up Bloomsbury AI. The company develops artificial intelligence, which Facebook would like to use against fake news. Bloomsbury AI joins the London branch of the American company, reports Facebook head artificial intelligence Yann LeCun Tuesday on Facebook. Although Facebook does not want to use the expertise of Bloomsbury AI to counter fake news, according to TechCrunch this is the intention of the takeover. Co-founder Sebastian Riedel of Bloomsbury AI has previously started a company that traces fake news, that's what says Down Town News. According to Facebook, the acquisition should provide a better understanding of so-called natural language. For artificial intelligence, it is often difficult to interpret what people have written down in natu...