Content to remove from Twitter rose to 55% in late 2019: Twitter
By MYBRANDBOOK
India came fifth among countries that requested social media site Twitter to remove content that violated local laws. The government made 782 legal demands for content takedown in the in the July-December 2019 period and it is up by about 55% from the previous period. Twitter reported it complied with around 36% of those requests.
The latest Twitter Transparency Report for the July-December 2019 period showed requests for removal of content from India were up 55 percent from the first half of 2019 when 504 such requests were made. In the first half of 2019, it did not comply with any of the 504 requests made by the Indian government to remove content. In the second half of 2019, Twitter approved 36 percent of the 782 requests.
The government listed 7,800 Twitter accounts in the 782 requests. The social media platform Twitter took down 16 accounts and around 1,500 tweets in India during the period, and no other information of such accounts and tweets were provided by the company,as per Deccan Herald.
“Governments and law enforcement agencies around the world submitted approximately 21 percent more information requests compared to the previous reporting period,” Twitter said in a blog post.
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