Elon Musk-owned Twitter has said India tops the list of countries requesting for removal of content. The other countries top requesting countries included South Korea, Japan and Turkey.
"As we review our approach to transparency reporting in light of innovations in content moderation and changes in the regulatory landscape, we believe it’s important to share data from H1 2022 on our health and safety efforts. We won’t be publishing a formal transparency report for this period (January 1 - June 30, 2022) in our previous format," the company wrote in a blog post.
"Over the reporting period, Twitter required users to remove 6,586,109 pieces of content that violated the Twitter Rules, an increase of 29% from H2 2021. We took enforcement action on 5,096,272 accounts during this period (a 20% increase), and 1,618,855 accounts were suspended for violating the Twitter Rules (a 28% increase)," Twitter added.
Twitter got over 50,000 legal requests to remove content from govts globally
Around the world, the company received approximately 53,000 legal requests to remove content from governments during the reporting period. However, Twitter’s compliance rate for these requests varied by requester country. The top requesting countries were Japan, South Korea, Turkey and India.
The company also received over 16,000 government information requests for user data from over 85 countries during the reporting period. Disclosure rates vary by requester country. The top five requesting countries seeking account information in H1 2022 were India, the United States, France, Japan, and Germany.
Earlier, before Musk's acquisition of Twitter, Twitter usually published twice-yearly reports on its Transparency Center website, which would detail the number of accounts it suspended and the number of government requests it received for data. The latest information from Twitter comes in the form of a blog post.
The company said that it would give an update about its "path forward for transparency reporting" later in 2023.