Twitter Decides To Stop Accounts Of Religious Group

Twitter recently has made an effort to support the upcoming national elections in Israel. The giant of micro-blogging has suspended about 600 Hebrew accounts which are managed by a suspicious Chinese group. These accounts were working on spreading political messages for the right-wing side of the election. Twitter said that the majority of the messages mainly focused on religion. And they were posting these messages via many different fake accounts with fake names in Hebrew.

Church of Almighty God

The report believes that the one who behind all of these accounts is CAG (Church of Almighty God). They are a Christian sect which is banned from operating in China. Moreover, this sect believes that Jesus Christ has reincarnated as a woman with Chinese ethnicity and now lives in New York City. Twitter flagged these accounts mostly because they have been coordinated to spread the content from CAG source.

The company has paid attention to the accounts for a long time. Even though, they have yet to disclose any details about the suspended accounts affiliated with CAG. The only information from a spokesperson of Twitter says that they suspended these accounts because of violations in spam policy.

Flagged suspicious account

The suspended Twitter accounts of CAG were among many more flagged suspicious account. Thus, we have been able to identify these account due to the work of Yuval Adam and Noam Rotem, two researchers from Israeli who conduct their studies on social media manipulation. Thanks to the research, Twitter has removed nearly 600 accounts flagged as suspicious.

However, we still don't know the exact reason why these CAG accounts were spreading political messages just a few days before the Israeli elections.