Twitter Suspends 70 Accounts With Pro-Michael Bloomberg Tweets
- Bloomberg campaign reportedly hired people to post messages
- Accounts posted identical tweets, hashtags, links to Twitter
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Twitter Inc. on Friday said it had begun suspending 70 accounts that posted identical messages in support of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg in a pattern that violates the social-media company’s rules.
A Twitter spokesman said in a statement that it had taken “enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam.”