Twitter lately revealed its transparency report and launched its new Transparency Center. Based on the information the corporate has provided, India came fifth within the overall legal content takedown requests.
Almost 86 % of the overall international volume of legal demands originated from three nations particularly Japan, Russia, and Turkey. The top 5 nations when it comes to content removing requests are Japan, Russia, Turkey, South Korea, and India.
“In 2020, it is more important than ever that we shine a light on our own practices, including how we enforce the Twitter Rules, our ongoing work to disrupt global state-backed information operations, and the increased attempts by governments to request information about account holders,” wrote the corporate in a blog post.
From July to December of 2019, Twitter acquired a total of 782 authorized content removing requests from India. Of these demands, 7 have been court orders. Twitter withheld four tweets in India under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
During this era, the corporate additionally observed a 47 % increase in global legal demands. There have been a total of 27,538 demands worldwide targeting 98,595 accounts.
“This is the largest number of requests and specified accounts that we’ve received since releasing our first Transparency Report in 2012,” says Twitter.
Apart from content removing requests, Twitter’s Transparency Center lists data requests, copyright notices, trademark notices, e-mail safety, Twitter Rules enforcement, platform manipulation, and state-backed info operations.
You might study more specifics from Twitter’s Transparency Center. The firm additionally publishes region-wise reports that supply useful Twitter insights. The subsequent update to the information will cover the period of January – June 2020.