Musk's X Corp Pulls Down More Than 23 Lakh Accounts From The Platform In 'June-July': Report

Taking note of the accounts that promote non-consensual nudity and child sexual exploitation, X Corp, formerly Twitter, has pulled down more than 23 lakh accounts in June-July in India.

Taking note of the accounts that promote non-consensual nudity and child sexual exploitation, tech billionaire Elon Musk's X Corp, formerly Twitter, has pulled down more than 23 lakh accounts from the platform in June-July in India, says a report by news agency IANS. X banned 5,44,473 accounts in India between May 26-June 25 and a record 23,95,495 accounts in June-July. The micro-blogging platform pulled 1,772 accounts for promoting terrorism in the country.

This comes a week after X was supposed to publish its monthly India compliance report for the May-June period on the X Transparency portal. This is similar to what other social networking companies like Facebook and WhatsApp parent Meta is doing. The monthly India compliance report got delayed, which includes the details of complaints from users via the "India grievance mechanism" and action taken on them, as well as information related to the company's proactive monitoring efforts under the IT Rules, 2021.

"Looks like this page doesn't exist. Here's a picture of a poodle sitting in a chair for your trouble," read the message when clicking on the IT Rules report for the May-June 2023 period. 

Moreover, between June 26 and July 25, X banned 1,851,022 accounts and also took down 2,865 accounts for promoting terrorism on its platform in the country. The micro-blogging platform received 2,056 complaints from users in India in the same time frame through its grievance redressal mechanisms. In addition, X processed 49 grievances which were appealing account suspensions between June 26 and July 25.

Meanwhile, X is also getting the ability to make video calls, the company CEO Linda Yaccarino has announced, says a report by TechCrunch that quoted a CNBC interview. Much like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and other social networking apps, users on the micro-blogging platform would now be able to make video chat calls as X shifts to become what Musk calls "everything app". The company CEO was quoted as saying that video calls on the platform would become available without sharing phone numbers on X.