<span style="color: #222222;">In the United States, Twitter has removed&nbsp;thousands of automated accounts, that were posting tweets encouraging voters to sit out Tuesday's crucial midterm elections.&nbsp;</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Media reports cited a Twitter statement as saying the social media company had removed a series of accounts for engaging in attempts to share disinformation in an automated fashion.&nbsp;</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">Twitter said it appeared the account network was run out of the United States but did not provide details on how the accounts worked.</span><br />” <br />” <span style="color: #222222;">For months, Twitter has sought to eliminate automated and bogus accounts designed to manipulate the public conversation on its platform.&nbsp;</span><br />” &nbsp;