Days after getting a new chief executive, Twitter Inc. said on Thursday it has removed more than 3,000 accounts, which were operating as foreign state-linked information operations.

The Twitter accounts that were removed were linked to operations attributed to six countries, including Mexico, China and Russia, Twitter said in a blog post.

Of the 3,465 accounts removed, 2,160 were linked to operations attributed to China.

The company also said it will start the Twitter moderation research consortium in early 2022 to study platform governance issues.

“Today, we’re disclosing an additional 3,465 accounts to our archive of state-linked information operations — the only one of its kind in the industry. The account sets include eight distinct operations we’ve attributed to six countries — Mexico, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Russia, Tanzania, Uganda, and Venezuela, respectively. Every account and piece of content associated with these operations has been permanently removed from the service,” Twitter blogspot said yesterday.

It added that the company has shared relevant data from the disclosure with three leading research partners: the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), Cazadores de Fake News, and the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO).

In Mexico, for example, Twitter removed a network of 276 inauthentic accounts that shared primarily civic content, in support of government initiatives related to public health and political parties.

In the People’s Republic of China, Twitter removed a network of accounts that amplified Chinese Communist Party narratives related to the treatment of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang.

“Today, we’re releasing a representative sample of 2,048 accounts.

We also removed a network of 112 accounts connected to ‘Changyu Culture’, a private company backed by the Xinjiang regional government,” Twitter pointed out.

In Russia, the micro-blogging site removed a network of 16 accounts linked to the IRA that attempted an information operation in the Central African Republic.

The operation relied on a mix of inauthentic and real accounts to introduce a pro-Russia viewpoint into Central African political discourse.

A network of 50 accounts, which attacked the civilian Libyan government and actors that support it, while voicing significant support for Russia’s geopolitical position in Libya and Syria, were also shuttered.

“We believe we have a responsibility to protect the integrity of the public conversation and to offer meaningful transparency into our findings. Disclosing these datasets remains core to that mission. We continue to assess our principles and approach to these critical disclosures, and have learned a number of lessons along the way,” Twitter said in the blogspot.