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X says it has taken down more than 13,000 accounts from three suspected foreign influence networks it ties to Iran, Russia and China, all aimed at swaying US politics ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.

Getting into it: The company announced the takedown Wednesday, saying the networks ran fake accounts that pumped out and boosted posts on US politics, hitting candidates and public figures “across the political spectrum” rather than backing one side. X said its own “proactive sweeps and investigations” turned up the accounts, which it pulled for breaking its spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior rules.

It didn’t say how the 13,000 accounts break down by country, how long they were active or what evidence tied them to each government, meaning for now the attribution rests on X’s word alone.

Alongside the suspensions, X laid out its midterm rules, saying it will go after posts that lie about voting times, locations or methods, try to keep people from voting, intimidate voters or call for violence at the polls. Anyone who spots a problematic election post can flag it under the “civic integrity” option and ask for a Community Note, and X says it may slap labels on posts that break the rules.

“Whether it is spam networks or entities engaged in influence operations, we are actively working to identify and stop coordinated inauthentic behavior that undermines the integrity of our platform,” X’s Global Government Affairs team said.

None of the three countries has responded, though all have rejected similar accusations of meddling in US elections in the past.

The takedown comes a week after OpenAI disclosed that it had cut off Russian and Iranian operations that were using ChatGPT, including an Iranian network that posed as Western journalists to push nearly 100 articles across 12 news sites. X’s sweep is also far bigger than the company’s past Iran-linked takedowns back when it was still Twitter, which removed 238 accounts in 2021 and 104 in 2020.