{"id":22245,"date":"2026-03-10T09:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/x-suspends-800m-accounts-in-one-year-amid-massive-scale-of-manipulation-attempts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:37:22","slug":"x-suspends-800m-accounts-in-one-year-amid-massive-scale-of-manipulation-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/x-suspends-800m-accounts-in-one-year-amid-massive-scale-of-manipulation-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid \u2018massive\u2019 scale of manipulation attempts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the \u201cmassive\u201d scale of attempts to manipulate the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The social media company told MPs it was continually fighting state-backed attempts to hijack the agenda on its network, with Russia the most prolific state actor, followed by Iran and China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/mar\/09\/x-suspends-accounts-massive-scale-manipulation-attempts-russia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e22dec6b5a5ff7a23f603a73bd91a218b44cd36e\/46_0_2915_2333\/master\/2915.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7ec1254fd8719070cc6422af8e58491c\" title=\"X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid \u2018massive\u2019 scale of manipulation attempts\" \/>Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific<br \/>\nElon Musk\u2019s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the \u201cmassive\u201d scale of attempts to manipulate the platform.<br \/>\nThe social media company told MPs it was continually fighting state-backed attempts to hijack the agenda on its network, with Russia the most prolific state actor, followed by Iran and China. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific Elon Musk\u2019s X said it had suspended 800m accounts over a 12-month period as it fights the \u201cmassive\u201d scale of attempts to manipulate the platform. The social media company told MPs it was continually fighting state-backed attempts to hijack &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/x-suspends-800m-accounts-in-one-year-amid-massive-scale-of-manipulation-attempts\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid \u2018massive\u2019 scale of manipulation attempts<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22245"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}