Twitter Transparency Report: Twitter said governments around the world requested the removal of content from a record number of user accounts between January and June last year. The platform said that over a six-month period, governments made legal demands to remove 43,387 content from 196,878 accounts, according to data from the new Transparency Report.
Twitter said it had the largest number of target accounts with government removal requests in a reporting period since the company began issuing transparency reports in 2012.
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Of these legal demands, 75 percent came from five countries, with the largest number coming from Japan, followed by Russia, Turkey, India and South Korea. Let us tell you that Twitter is banned in many countries including China and North Korea.
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Twitter said it had “blocked” access to content or asked account holders to remove content in some countries in response to 54 percent of global legal demands during this period.
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“We are facing unprecedented challenges as governments around the world increasingly attempt to intervene and remove content,” said Sinead McSweeney, Twitter’s Vice President of Global Public Policy and Philanthropy, in a statement. “This threat to privacy and freedom of expression is a deeply worrying trend that needs our full attention.”
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Major social media companies face ongoing scrutiny from global governments and regulators over the content they allow on their platforms. Over the past year, Twitter has faced high-profile fights with governments from India to Nigeria over content moderation and regulation.