4,779 accounts believed to be tied to Tehran were taken down in an attempt to minimize fake information campaigns

By Reuters via Haaretz.com, June 13

[....] The micro-blogging site also said it had removed and archived four accounts affiliated with the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency,

It also removed and archived 130 accounts tied to the Catalan independence movement in Spain, and 33 accounts engaged in manipulative behavior related to Venezuela.

Twitter first released the archive of data associated with known state-backed information operations last October to provide more transparency of information and to stem manipulation on its platform. "Thousands of researchers from across the globe have downloaded datasets, which contain more than 30 million Tweets and over 1 terabyte of media, using our archive to conduct their own investigations and to share their insights and independent analysis with the world," Twitter said in a blog post [....]