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Twitter Inviting Users To I.D. 'Fake' Accounts
- Fortune, Wednesday, October 31, 2018 5:18 PM
As part of a broader effort to clean up its network, Twitter is now inviting users to identify accounts they think might be fake. “When a user reports a tweet as ‘suspicious or spam,’ a menu appears asking why,” Fortune reports. “Users can select from a number of explanations, including ‘the account tweeting this is fake’; ‘includes a link to a potentially harmful, malicious, or phishing site’; ‘the hashtags included seem unrelated’; or ‘uses the reply function to spam.’”
