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Twitter has disclosed four networks of accounts to its archive of state-linked information operations.

“The networks we are disclosing relate to independent, state-affiliated information operations that we have attributed to Armenia, Russia and a previously disclosed network from Iran,” it said in a statement on Tuesday.

"Once our investigations were complete, the 373 associated accounts across the four networks were permanently suspended from Twitter for violations of our platform manipulation policies," the company noted.

Under its platform manipulation policy, Twitter investigated and removed 35 accounts that had ties to the government of Armenia.

“These accounts were created in order to advance narratives that were targeting Azerbaijan and were geostrategically favorable to the Armenian government. In some cases, the fake accounts purported to represent government and political figures in Azerbaijan, as well as news entities claiming to operate in Azerbaijan,” the company said.

Twitter suspended a total of 238 accounts operating from Iran for various violations of its platform manipulation policies.

It disclosed two separate networks that have Russian ties. The first investigation found and removed a network of 69 fake accounts that can be reliably tied to Russian state actors, while as part of its second investigation in the region, Twitter removed 31 accounts from two networks that show signs of being affiliated with the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and Russian government-linked actors.