New Delhi, July 29, 2022 (PPI-OT):Twitter has said that India made the highest number of legal demands globally to remove content posted by verified journalists and news outlets on the micro-blogging platform during July-December 2021.
Quoting Twitter’s latest transparency report, news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) reported that India accounted for 19 per cent of global information requests. India was among the top five countries to issue content-blocking orders to twitter during July-December 2021 for all kinds of users, the report said.
Quoting Twitter, the report said 349 accounts of verified journalists and news outlets located around the world were subject to 326 legal demands to remove content, a 103 per cent increase in the number of accounts since the previous period (January-June 2021).
It said that India had topped this list for January-June 2021 as well. In that time frame, India had made 89 of the total 231 such demands the platform received globally. Twitter said ‘legal demands’ include a combination of court orders and other formal demands to remove content, from both governmental entities and lawyers representing individuals.
Twitter also received the second highest number of government legal requests for providing account information of users from India, after the US. The US submitted the most government information requests during this reporting period, accounting for 20 per cent of the global volume, and 39 per cent of the global accounts specified.
“The second highest volume of requests originated from India, comprising 19 per cent of global information requests and 27 per cent of the global accounts specified,” the report said.
Giving details of legal demands made from India, Twitter said a total of 3,992, or 8 per cent of 47,572 worldwide, and requests to remove content from its platform were made during July-December 2021. These included 23 court orders and 3,969 other legal demands. During this period, Twitter withheld 88 accounts and 303 tweets in India.
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