Twitter has released its latest Transparency Report. In this, information about the action taken on the content that violates its rules has been given. Along with this, the data of requests from governments around the world has also been shared. This Twitter report is from January 1 to June 30, 2022.
According to the Twitter Transparency Report, in the first half of the year 2022, Twitter removed a total of 6,586,109 pieces of content from its platform. These contents were in violation of Twitter’s policy. The special thing is that compared to the second half of the year 2021, the number of content removed in the first half of 2022 was 29 percent more.
The report states that enforcement action was taken on 5,096,272 accounts during this period, which is 20 percent more than in the second half of 2021. Apart from this, 1,618,855 Twitter accounts were suspended due to violation of rules, which is 28 percent more than last time.
53,000 requests from governments around the world
It has been informed in Twitter’s report that from January 1 to June 30, 2022, about 53,000 legal requests were received from governments around the world to remove content. Japan, South Korea, Turkey and India were among the top 4 countries with requests to remove content.
85 countries asked for user data
According to the report, during the first half of the year 2022, Twitter received 16,000 requests from governments of 85 countries for user data. The top-5 countries seeking data include India, America, France, Japan and Germany.
Twitter’s new policy will come from May 18
Elon Musk recently announced that he is going to bring a new Twitter policy soon. This new policy of Twitter will be applicable from 18 May 2023. Apart from this, Twitter Inc. Now renamed X Corp. It is done. Elon Musk has made it clear that tweets and posts from accounts with verified blue badges will be given priority, that is, users who have taken the service of blue verification or have legacy blue verification service, their tweets will be given priority, that is, the reach of their tweets. Will be more Apart from this, Musk has said on the privacy policy that there is freedom of speech on Twitter, but the reach of accounts with censored and shadowbanning will be reduced.
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