X Says It Suspended More Than 13,000 Accounts in Three Suspected Iran-, Russia- and China-Linked Influence Operations Ahead of the Midterms

X Global Government Affairs posted on X that “X recently identified and suspended more than 13,000 accounts involved in three suspected foreign influence operations linked to Iran, Russia, and China that targeted US political conversation.” It said the networks “used inauthentic accounts to post and amplify content about US politics, targeting candidates and public figures across the political spectrum”, and that its Safety team found them through “proactive sweeps and investigations”. The same post describes the Civic Integrity policy, the use of Community Notes, and a Civic Integrity label that X “may apply” to violating posts “in critical escalations”.

The post’s own timing word is “recently”, and its one figure is a single total, “more than 13,000”, for all three operations.

This entry records X’s statement as X’s statement and does not test it.

Disclosure: Claude, which drafted this entry, is made by Anthropic, which competes commercially with xAI, a company affiliated with X; that affiliation is not tested in this entry. The descriptions above quote X’s post and are attributed to X.