Twitter announced the permanent removal of more than 3,400 accounts linked to governments in six countries and conducting manipulation or spam campaigns.
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The social media company says the accounts were used in eight different campaigns, located in Mexico, the People's Republic of China (PRC), Russia, Tanzania, Uganda and Venezuela.
Governments campaigns through social media to influence target audiences to intervene in certain political conversations or sway the public towards a particular line of thought.
Of the six countries using inauthentic profiles for their campaigns, the People's Republic of China (PRC) had the highest number of fake accounts, Twitter reports.
More than 2,000 accounts were used to distribute Chinese Communist Party content about the treatment of the Uyghur population in Beijing.
Twitter found another 112 accounts linked to a private company called "Changyu Culture," which is backed by the city's regional authorities.
The Ugandan government used more than 400 fake profiles to support the country's current president and his party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM).
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The activity carried out by the Venezuelan government was carried out through a network of 277 accounts that promoted other accounts and hashtags.
Twitter says 276 of the fake accounts were sharing "primarily civic content" to support public health actions by the Mexican government and political parties.
A network of 268 accounts was used in an operation by the Tanzanian government to dishonestly report members and supporters of the Fichua Tanzania and its founder.
Surprisingly, Twitter found only 66 accounts, fake and real, associated with Russian operations targeting individuals in the Central African Republic and Libya.
The goal seems to be to promote a pro-Russian stance and support Russia's geopolitical position in Libya and Syria.
The social media platform said that details about the campaigns and related accounts have been shared with three leading research organizations: the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Cazadores de Fake News and the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO).
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Twitter removed 3,465 accounts this time. The company did not share details about the number of tweets or media created or shared during the campaigns.
Since mid-October 2018, Twitter has uncovered campaigns from 17 countries, which posted more than 200 million tweets and distributed nine terabytes of media.
