推特宣佈再關閉23.5萬個宣揚恐怖主義的賬號

Twitter announced that it has suspended an additional 235,000 accounts for promoting terrorism over the past six months.

在過去的六個月裏，推特宣佈又封停了23.5萬宣揚恐怖主義的賬號。

"This brings our overall number of suspensions to 360,000 since the middle of 2015," the company said in a statement Thursday.

該公司週四在一份聲明中表示："自2015年年中以來，我們已經關閉了36萬個這樣的賬號。"

Twitter says that daily suspensions of user accounts have increased by 80 percent since 2015. It adds that many of the suspensions immediately follow terrorist attacks.

推特表示，自2015年以來，每天封停的用戶賬號數量上漲了80%。該公司補充說，很多賬號在宣傳恐怖襲擊之後立即就被關閉了。

The U.S.-based company says it also has made progress in preventing users who were suspended from immediately returning to the platform using different accounts and that it "collaborates with other social platforms in identifying terrorist content."

這家美國公司還表示，爲了防止被關閉的用戶通過不同的賬號回到這個平臺，他們已經在辨識恐怖主義內容方面和其他社交平臺進行合作了。

Despite the progress, many suspended users have found their way back onto Twitter.

但是，很多用戶還是找到了回到推特的辦法。

"The numbers include a fairly large number of users who are repeatedly suspended after creating new accounts, so the number of accounts suspended does not equal the number of users suspended," said J.M. Berger, a fellow at George Washington University's Program on Extremism. "It's not a trivial number."

喬治·華盛頓大學研究極端主義項目的J·M·伯格表示："這些賬號中有很大一部分，都是用戶在創建新賬號後多次被封的，所以被封禁的賬號數量和被封禁的用戶數量是不對等的。這可不是個小數目。"

Berger was the lead author of a 2015 study titled, "The ISIS (Islamic State) Twitter Census," which found supporters of the Islamic State (IS) terror group used at least 46,000 Twitter accounts between September and December 2014, with an average of about 1,000 followers each.

伯格是2015年一項名爲《ISIS推特賬號調查》報告的第一作者。這篇報告發現，ISIS恐怖組織的支持者在2014年9月到12月期間擁有至少46000個推特賬號，每個賬號大約有100名粉絲。

Twitter has been criticized in the past for not doing enough to stem the flow of extremist content. Still, Berger credits Twitter with making progress.

過去，推特因爲遏止恐怖主義信息的力度不夠而廣受批評。但是，伯格相信推特正在取得進步。

"The current ISIS network on Twitter is less than 10 percent of what it was in 2014 when we did the census," he said.

"現在，推特上ISIS的關係網絡比2014年我們做研究時的十分之一還要少了。"他說。

In response to crackdowns by Twitter and other social media networks, IS followers have taken to other, encrypted messaging apps, such as Telegram and WhatsApp, to communicate with followers with limited success.

因爲推特和其他社交媒體網站摧毀了其關係網絡，ISIS的支持者只好使用像Telegram和WhatsApp這樣加密的即時通訊應用軟件來聯繫，而且成功率還不是很高。

"Telegram allows existing supporters to talk amongst themselves, but Twitter and Facebook are the main places they can find new supporters online," Berger said.

"他們可以用Telegram來向已有的支持者發消息，但是推特和臉書網是他們發掘新的支持者的主要戰場。"伯格說道。

"ISIS recruiters and propagandists know this and so they heavily emphasize that Telegram supporters should be creating new accounts on Twitter."

"ISIS的募兵官和宣傳人員非常清楚這一點，所以他們着重強調Telegram上的支持者應該創建推特賬號。"