India is the Fifth Largest Requester for Content Removal: Twitter
Aug. 21, 2020Twitter recently published its transparency report and launched its new Transparency Center. Based on the data the company has provided,India came 5th in the overall legal content takedown requests.
Almost 86 percent of the total global volume of legal demands originated from three countries namely Japan, Russia, and Turkey. The top 5 countries in terms of content removal requests are Japan, Russia, Turkey, South Korea, and India.
Apart from content removal requests, Twitter’s Transparency Center lists information requests, copyright notices, trademark notices, email security, Twitter Rules enforcement, platform manipulation, and state-backed information operations.
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