Twitter has received a record number of requests, mostly from governments, to remove content posted on its platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Twitter, governments made 43,387 legal requests to remove content from 196,878 accounts in a six-month period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The social media giant said this was the largest number of accounts being impacted by government removal requests in a reporting period since the tech giant began publishing transparency reports a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ninety-five percent of these legal demands came from just five countries – Japan, followed by Russia, Turkey, India, and South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twitter said it either “withheld” access to content in some countries or required account holders to delete some or all of the reported content in response to 54% of global legal demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The data also showed that the number of accounts identified in the legal requests increased by almost 50% from 131,933 accounts in the previous six months, and the number of government deletion requests rose by 14% from 38,524 in the last reporting period, up 2.8% from the previous year, Twitter said.<\/p>\n\n\n