{"id":11248,"date":"2026-03-11T02:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/twitter-suspended-800-million-accounts-last-year-so-why-does-manipulation-remain-so-rampant\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:04:17","slug":"twitter-suspended-800-million-accounts-last-year-so-why-does-manipulation-remain-so-rampant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/twitter-suspended-800-million-accounts-last-year-so-why-does-manipulation-remain-so-rampant\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter suspended 800 million accounts last year \u2013 so why does manipulation remain so rampant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Twitter suspended 800 million accounts last year \u2013 so why does manipulation remain so rampant?<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Elon Musk&#8217;s social media site says it suspended 800 million accounts in a year for spam and manipulation &#8211; but with state-backed campaigns still flooding the platform, the real question is how many fake accounts remain.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/twitter-suspended-800-million-accounts-last-year-so-why-does-manipulation-remain-so-rampant\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter suspended 800 million accounts last year \u2013 so why does manipulation remain so rampant? Elon Musk&#8217;s social media site says it suspended 800 million accounts in a year for spam and manipulation &#8211; but with state-backed campaigns still flooding the platform, the real question is how many fake accounts remain. Read more in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2355,479,54,155,932,164,1442,2356,317,769,1607],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-11248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bot","category-china","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-iran","category-law-order","category-misinformation","category-parliament","category-russia","category-twitter","category-uk-government","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}