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31/07/22 16:38 PM IST

Twitter Transparency Report

In News 
  • India made the highest number of legal demands globally to remove content posted by verified journalists and news outlets on Twitter during July-December 2021.
Major Findings 
  • India is only behind United States in asking for Twitter account information.
  • India accounts for 19% of total information requests worldwide.
  • India is among top five countries to give content-blocking orders to Twitter, for all kinds of users, in July-December 2021.
  • After India, other countries accounting for high legal demands include- Turkey, Russia, and Pakistan.
  • Turkey made 78 such demands, Russia made 55, and Pakistan made 48 demands.
  • Government information requests comprises of emergency as well as routine legal demands for account information.
  • In India, during January-June 2021, 17 tweets from verified journalists and news outlets were withheld, without giving details.
Source- The Hindu 

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