Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
January 27, 2022 01:30 am

Government Demands To Remove Twitter Content Hit Record High

Twitter revealed on Tuesday that governments' requests for content to be removed from the platform hit a record high in the first six months of 2021. The Hill reports: Governments made 43,387 legal demands for content to be pulled down from 196,878 accounts between January and the end of June. Twitter's latest transparency report showed that 95 percent of the requests came from Japan, Russia, Turkey, India and South Korea. The platform "withheld" access to content or required accounts to take down posts in response to 54 percent of the demands. Twitter's transparency report also showed that government requests to preserve account information fell four percent compared to the previous reporting period, the last six months of 2020. The United States accounted for 57 percent of preservation requests.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.


Original Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/22/01/26/226250/government-demands-to-remove-twitter-content-hit-record-high?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=f

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Slashdot

Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..

More About this Source Visit Slashdot