In a current weblog put up, Twitter disclosed that India was one of many main international locations to make requests for content material elimination on the social media platform final yr. The corporate shared statistics on its well being and security measures and revealed that it had acquired roughly 53,000 authorized requests from governments worldwide to take down content material between January and June 2022.
In accordance with Twitter’s weblog put up, India, the US, France, Japan, and Germany had been the highest 5 international locations that requested account data from the platform. The put up additionally acknowledged that Twitter stays dedicated to imposing its guidelines and safeguarding the rights of its customers in compliance with authorized requests from governments.
Between January and June 2022, Twitter mandated the elimination of 6,586,109 items of content material that contravened its insurance policies, marking a 29% rise from the earlier six-month interval.
In its weblog put up, Twitter revealed that it took motion in opposition to 5,096,272 accounts for violating its insurance policies throughout the January-June 2022 interval, marking a 20% enhance from the earlier six months. The platform additionally suspended 1,618,855 accounts, an increase of 28%, resulting from violations of its guidelines.
The content material that was eliminated or accounts suspended pertained to a spread of points, together with abuse/harassment, little one sexual exploitation, hacked supplies, hateful conduct, impersonation, non-consensual nudity, perpetrators of violent assaults, non-public data, selling suicide or self-harm, delicate media, terrorism/violent extremism, and violence. Twitter additional acknowledged that it plans to supply extra particulars on its transparency reporting plans later this yr.
(With inputs from ANI)