Centre asked Twitter for data on 2.2k accounts in first half of 2021

The Indian government asked Twitter for data on 2200 user accounts in the JanuaryJune 2021 period and the microblogging platform complied with just 2 per cent of the requestsThere were also nearly 5000 legal demands to remove Twitter accounts from India in the reporting period the companys latest transparency report has revealedGlobal government preservation requests decreased by 4 per cent while accounts specified increased by 24 per cent during this reporting period The US 57 per cent and India 25 per cent together accounted for 82 per cent of all global preservation requestsSince Twitter started bringing out its transparency report in 2012 India has requested information on 11667 user accounts which is 10 per cent of the global information requestsThe US submitted the most government information requests accounting for 24 per cent of the global volume and 27 per cent of the global accounts specifiedThe second highest volume of requests originated from India comprising 18 per cent of global information requests and 30 per cent of the global accounts specifiedTwitter said that it partially disclosed or did not disclose information in response to 64 per cent of global government information requests a decrease of 9 per cent during this reporting periodJapan Brazil and the US were the top three requesting countries when it comes to nongovernment requests with all three accounting for 89 per cent of all requests and 87 per cent of the total accounts specified for this periodIn terms of legal demands from governments in the sixmonth period Twitter received 43387 legal demands to remove content specifying 196878 accountsThis is the largest number of accounts ever subject to removal requests in a reporting period since releasing our first transparency report in 2012 the company said late on WednesdayIn the JanuaryJune period Twitter required account holders to remove 47 million tweets that violated its rulesOf the Tweets removed 68 per cent received fewer than 100 impressions prior to removal with an additional 24 per cent receiving between 100 and 1000 impressionsIn these six months Twitter permanently suspended 453754 unique accounts for violations of its child sexual exploitation CSE policyIn the first half of 2021 Twitter suspended 44974 unique accounts for promotion of terrorism and violent organisationsAccording to Article 4d of Indias Information Technology Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Rules 2021 Twitter is required to publish a monthly report regarding its handling of complaints from users in India including action taken on them as well as the number of URLs that Twitter has taken action as a result of proactive monitoring effortsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever